Televisión, identidad y memoriarepresentación de la guerra civil española en la ficción contemporánea

Abstract

The Spanish Civil War remains a recurring subject in the collective imagination and has been frequently used for discussion of issues of the present. Television, since the political transition, has had an important role as an agent of memory. However, in the last two decades it has been detected a decline in the number of television fiction located in this period (1936-1939). This research focuses on the analysis of the representation of the Spanish Civil War in three fictions issued by generalist channels in the XXI century: Temps de silenci (TVE-1, 2001), Amar en tiempos revueltos (TVE-1, 2005), based on the first one, and Plaza de España (TVE-1, 2011). The three of them are directly linked to a space-time coordinates to offer a look to the past from the present time. The first two are “soap opera” formats (under a peculiar idiosyncrasy), and the war is only referenced to talk about the post-war, while the third one proposes a comic vision, distanced and depoliticized.