[Commlist] New book: Screening the Transition: Spanish Cinema and the Challenges of Democracy

Intellect is pleased to share that /Screening the Transition: Spanish 
Cinema and the Challenges of Democracy 
<https://www.intellectbooks.com/screening-the-transition>//, 
<https://www.intellectbooks.com/screening-the-transition>/ by Federico 
Bonaddio, is out in hardback and e-book.

A timely study of Spanish cinema during the country’s transition to 
democracy, including how popular and auteur films grappled with the 
authoritarian past. /Screening the Transition/ examines how Spanish 
cinema produced in the years immediately following Francisco Franco’s 
death articulated – through its narratives and characterizations – the 
social and cultural challenges encountered during the country’s 
transition to democracy. These films reflect emergent post-dictatorship 
realities, including increased openness toward sexuality and nudity; the 
erosion of traditional family structures; persistent attachments to, and 
reckonings with, the Francoist past; the development of political 
plurality and expanded freedom of expression; and various forms of 
marginalization, whether economic or based on gender and sexuality. In 
doing so, the analysis conceptualizes Spain’s transition not solely in 
political terms, as is commonly the case, but as a profoundly personal 
and affective process.

Federico Bonaddio demonstrates the limitations of cinema in this period, 
which at times revealed an inability to transcend deep-seated prejudices 
and forms of reticence cultivated over nearly four decades of 
authoritarian rule. These limitations surface in the prurient treatment 
of female nudity and sexual violence; in the deployment of comedy to 
belittle or trivialize democratic change; in a preference for metaphor 
and allegory over direct political engagement; and in the restricted 
investigative ambitions of historical dramas. Considering both popular 
and auteur cinema, the book is primarily concerned with how filmmaking 
registered the difficulties of consigning the dictatorship fully to the 
past, despite the so-called pact of forgetting promoted by political 
elites to facilitate national reconciliation.


*_Table of Contents_*

*List of Figures
Note on Translations
Introduction*

*1.* Undressing Spain
*2.* A Family Crisis
*3. *The Past Weighs Heavy
*4. *Out of the Silence
*5.* From the Margins

*Conclusion
Filmography
Bibliography
Index*


Please visit our website for more information:
www.intellectbooks.com/screening-the-transition
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