Spanish horror films - Midterm

the abject

Narriative

• theme

• plot

• social and historical context

• setting: time and place

• genre

• characters: physical and psychological traits, social positions, values, worldveiws, development/changes

• tone/atmopshere

• point of view

Mise-en-scene

Everything visble in a scene

• scenery

• decoration

• props

• makeip

• wardrobe

• actors’ movements, expressions

• lighting, color

• framing/com[psition of elements within the framework

editing

• continuity editing (uninterrupted, conventional) v. discontinuity (i.e jump cuts, cutaways, more experimental)

• segmentation: frame; shot; sequence; episode

• transitions (“punctuation”): fade; cut; inter title; long take; superimposition

Geography

• iberian peninsula

• southwestern europe

• 2 archipelagos

  • canary islands → much closer to african than europe

  • balearic islands

• used to have territory in latin america, philippines, morocco

pre roman

inhabited by iberians, celts, realtions with greece and carthage

rome

conquired by rome after punic wars until 400s

• latin → spanish

catholic beginnings

• islamic people migrated from norther africa in 711 (moors)

• conquered by Catholic King Ferdinand in 1492 and Queen Isabella

  • same year Columbus saidled to America

Spanish colonies

Some spanish colonies in Latin America gained independence from Spain in 1898 after Spanish-American war (Cuba and Puerto Rico)

1931

spain became a republic

• increased polarization leads to civil war

1936-1939

spanish civil war, ends with Franco in power

Dictatorship

1939-1975

EU

joined EU in 1986, schengen agreement → euripean union treaty on internal border controls

culture

• strong linguistic and cutural ties to latin america, sharing of music, literature, and movies

3 offical languages other than spanish

• catalon

• valencia

• euskera

Society - catholic church played major role in educationa dn daily life before reforms

women allowed to vote in 1931

strong regional idenitu

1st county in world number or organ donations and transplants

3rd coutny in world to legalize gay marriage

3rd country in the world in the number of forgien tourisits

polticis - general

17 autonomous regions, two autonomous cities

• autonomous regions have control over stuff like helath care and education

• state has ultimate control over stuff like immigration, international relations, armed forces

• leads to friction with states vs the national government like with catalonia

parlimentary monarchy → king has no real political power, repuation for corruption and scandals

liberal democracy

clsoe to the EU and NATO in policy

economy

• joined the EEC (european economic community) in 1986

• has the euro as currency

• economic boom in Spain from late 1990’s to 2010

• 2010 economic crisis, many Spaniards emigrating to Latin America in search of work

who were the republicans and what were their values?

• democratic, equal, womens rights

• indpentent state groups, atonomousy

• big diverse left group

what international groups supported the republicans

• soviet union

• mexico

• interational brigade, many black people from america

who were the nationalists and what were their values

• strong cathlic church, monarchy

• one nation universially

• only spanish language, no womens rights

what interational groups supported

• naizs

• mussilini

• irish??

how many people died

500,000

what were the fates of the republicans following the war

• execusions, mass graves, seeking asulum in other countires like USSR, prision

Hisotrical memory act

2007

• remove franco imagier, signs, sympols

• recogonixtion of survivors descentends

• openings of mass graves

what did historical memory act not do

it did not prosecute

quintessential spanish values

• great empire, great military, cathlic, spanish only

characteristics of post war spain (1940s)

• repression of free speech

• executions (100,000) and arrests

• food scarcity

• not supported by other countires

• no womens rights

• isolation, no railways connected to other counties

• different time zone

late francoism changes (1950s-1975)

• allied with US during cold war, UN allowed along with financial aid

• new economic policies, forgient trade again

• industrial growth, leave rural areas go to other countreis

• foriegn tourists Who

Who was ranco’s intended successor and what happened

prince Juan Carlos, saw the switch with in the people who wanted democary, said he would do a democracy, left the same people in charge just as a democary

where was franco buried

• valley of the fallen till 2022 cuelgamuros

constroversity surrounding burial

• move his remains but some ppl and supporters said no and went back and forth

• 7 pl still burried w/out consent wait

what year did the mass grave get dug up

2000

how does the author characterize spaisn transition from dictatorship to democary

large social groups

• young people, new bulidings, forgetting, moving on, covering up of history

what were some of the reactions in Spain to thsoe who were pushing to exhume their family/ whyd they respond

• people want to forget, move forwards, bring it back to presume , treason breach silence

relationships of sound

loud and social, can’t see that it was all for nothing

explosion of horror gene

• expression of trauma, way to bring back eachother and deal with it through art

what are some examples of those visual techniques

• use of unatural lighting to signify events

• sounds signaling when they are happen

• shadow in most films you dont want to, give