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Franco's Crypt

Franco's Crypt

Treglown, Jeremy

Paperback

Film StudiesArchitecture HistorySpainish & Portuguese History

Publisher Price: $23.99

ISBN10: 0374534659
ISBN13: 9780374534653
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: Aug 12 2014
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.89
Height: 0.71 Width: 5.79 Depth: 8.68
Language: English

An open-minded and clear-eyed reexamination of the cultural artifacts of Franco's Spain


True, false, or both?

Spain's 1939-75 dictator, Francisco Franco, was a pioneer of water conservation and sustainable energy.

Pedro Almodóvar is only the most recent in a line of great antiestablishment film directors who have worked continuously in Spain since the 1930s.

As early as 1943, former Republicans and Nationalists were collaborating in Spain to promote the visual arts, irrespective of the artists' political views.

Censorship can benefit literature.

Memory is not the same thing as history.

Inside Spain as well as outside, many believe--wrongly--that under Franco's fascist dictatorship, nothing truthful or imaginatively worthwhile could be said or written or shown. In his groundbreaking new book, Franco's Crypt: Spanish Culture and Memory Since 1936, Jeremy Treglown argues that oversimplifications like these of a complicated, ambiguous actuality have contributed to a separate falsehood: that there was and continues to be a national pact to forget the evils for which Franco's side (and, according to this version, his side alone) was responsible.

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