The police cinema of the Spanish post-war period (1939-1949): a reflection of the early Franco regime
Abstract
In the immediate post-war, with cinematographic policies already defined around the Franco “New State,” and with a tendency to consolidate a Spanish film industry, it will be when genres policy is deployed in an increasingly robust and defined police cinema. This genre and its various internal currents will reflect the Spanish society wounded by the war contest.
This article aims to provide a first global historical perspective of postwar Spanish police cinema since 1939, and in the historical stage immediately prior to the hatching of the so-called “golden age” of the genre in the decade of 50. For this purpose, their main esthetic-narrative currents will be characterized with illustrative examples, and analysis and comments of how the society of their time and the predominant ideology of this historical context were portrayed.
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