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In: | Catalan Journal of Communication & Cultural Studies, 7, 2015, 1, S. 89-97 |
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Intellect
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Medientyp: | Artikel, E-Artikel |
Umfang: | 89-97 |
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1757-1898
1757-1901 |
DOI: | 10.1386/cjcs.7.1.88_1 |
veröffentlicht in: | Catalan Journal of Communication & Cultural Studies |
Sprache: | Englisch |
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Kollektion: | Intellect (CrossRef) |
<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>In this article, I undertake an analysis of the Spanish film, Bosque de sombras/The Backwoods in order to explore the shifting representations of the forest in the national cinema. I suggest that, during the dictatorship and the period of the transition following Franco’s death, the forest was utilized by film-makers as a site in which to express subversive political ideas. In the twentieth century, this rich tradition continues and yet, as the film which is used here as a case study demonstrates, with a significantly altered perspective. Rather than returning to the same denunciation of Falangist policies that had been the hallmark of much earlier Spanish cinema, el cine del bosque has now become a medium through which film-makers can explore more contemporary anxieties about masculine and regional/national identities, a focus of particular interest, given the current debate about an independent Catalan state.</jats:p> |