La ciudad periférica paisajes urbanos de marginalidad en el cine español de la transiciónla ciudad periférica paisajes urbanos de marginalidad en el cine español de la transición
- Juan Carlos Alfeo Álvarez 1
- Beatriz González de Garay Domínguez 1
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Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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- Francisco García García (coord.)
- Rogerio García Fernández (coord.)
Publisher: Icono 14 Asociación Científica
ISBN: 9788493907761
Year of publication: 2011
Volume Title: TOMO II
Tome: 2
Volume: 2
Pages: 777-797
Congress: Congreso Internacional Ciudades Creativas (2. 2011. Madrid)
Type: Conference paper
Abstract
Locations in the Spanish Cinema of the Transition toDemocracy are usually another actant, able to givemeaning to a scene or to define a character.Stark landscapes, urban moors, no-places crossed bycharacters with no future, the city turns into a map oflacks and a silent witness of personal dramas.The outskirts become a territory where hegemonysuccumbs to marginality. The periphery of the city is ametaphor of social distance that defines the charactersthat live there.The aim of this article is to analyze the meaning ofthese spaces that outline the aesthetics of Spanish cinema in the 70’s and 80’s and which deep transformation we have witnessed. Outskirts of big cities such asMadrid, Bilbao or Barcelona grew quickly and withthe only objective of sheltering the 60’s emigrants.Nowadays reformed into comfortable suburbs, thefilms of directors such as Eloy de la Iglesia, Jaime Chávarri, Pedro Olea or Pedro Almodóvar keep the memory of the origin and hostile nature of those neighborhoods.