Scenarios of remorse. Ciudad Universitaria and Civil War in Death of a Cyclist (Muerte de un ciclista, Juan Antonio Bardem, 1955)
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This work examines Death of a Cyclist (Juan Antonio Bardem, 1955) as a film-event, film-evénement, and explores the resignification that its director gives to the space of Madrid's Ciudad Universitaria. Bardem's film is seen as the first Spanish movie to portray a different narrative of the consequences of the Civil War on the victors and uses the University and its value as an example of territory critical towards the regime, serving as a symbolic precedent of the first student demonstrations in Spain during the Franco regime.
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