The Spanish post-Civil War period as a melodramatic setting and a space of female representation in the television adaptations Lo que escondían sus ojos (Telecinco, 2016) and La sonata del silencio (TVE1, 2016)
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TV Series, historical novel, Francoism, feminism, Spanish post-Civil War periodAbstract
This article examines the representation of the historical context of the Spanish post-Civil War period and of women in two television adaptations: Lo que escondían sus ojos and La sonata del silencio. A qualitative methodology is applied to the reading, viewing and analysis of both projects and their topics. Both series generate entertainment using the past, but their ways of making historical memory are divergent: in the first, the post-war period is only a luxurious setting for a melodrama of forbidden love, while in the second, the adaptation operates in a more subtle way by addressing various social issues.
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