Adolfo Suárez y Felipe y Letiziaficción televisiva y memorias inmediatas sobre la monarquía española
ISSN: 0018-2176
Any de publicació: 2011
Volum: 79
Número: 4
Pàgines: 639-660
Tipus: Article
Altres publicacions en: Hispanic review
Resum
This paper analyzes two television miniseries centered on the representation of recent Spanish history: Adolfo Suárez, el presidente and Felipe y Letizia, deber y querer. Both were aired in 2010. The study outlines their general content, and interrogates other products dedicated to information and historical evocation. My analysis highlights various strategies of memory undertaken in both productions. These strategies were based on the use of a differential selection of historical periods and dramatic patterns. While Adolfo Suárez emphasized the providential meaning of democratic transition and its historic leadership, Felipe y Letizia evoked much more mundane or even parodic aspects. This contrast permits the examination of the uses to which contemporary Spanish fiction puts different significations regarding the monarchy.