Memorie immaginative dal Nuevo Cine Español: come restituire la storia all’evento

Since the middle of the last century, and especially in the contemporary era, dominated by the image, the power of a historical fact is not only political, social and archival, but also cinematographic: from its very beginnings, cinema possesses a strong capacity for rewriting that can produce a historical consciousness superior to that of any other text. Examining the specific case of the Spanish Civil War up to the collapse of the Franco dictatorship, the essay offers a reflection on the process of historical re-appropriation conducted in Spain through cinema. The cinema is not merely a summary of history’s events, but offers the possibility of establishing a historical-aesthetic relationship with the spectator that is functional to the understanding of one’s individuality connected to the processes of collective memorisation.