Jump to ContentJump to Main Navigation
The Making and Unmaking of Francoist Kitsch CinemaFrom Raza to Pan's Labyrinth$
Users without a subscription are not able to see the full content.
The Making and Unmaking of Francoist Kitsch Cinema: From Raza to Pan's Labyrinth

Alejandro Yarza

Print publication date: 2018

Print ISBN-13: 9780748699247

Published to Edinburgh Scholarship Online: September 2018

DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748699247.001.0001

Show Summary Details
Page of

PRINTED FROM EDINBURGH SCHOLARSHIP ONLINE (www.edinburgh.universitypressscholarship.com). (c) Copyright Edinburgh University Press, 2022. All Rights Reserved. An individual user may print out a PDF of a single chapter of a monograph in ESO for personal use.date: 23 May 2022

The Petrified Tears of General Franco: Kitsch and Fascism in José Luis Sáenz de Heredia’s Raza

The Petrified Tears of General Franco: Kitsch and Fascism in José Luis Sáenz de Heredia’s Raza

Chapter:
(p.23) Chapter 1 The Petrified Tears of General Franco: Kitsch and Fascism in José Luis Sáenz de Heredia’s Raza
Source:
The Making and Unmaking of Francoist Kitsch Cinema
Author(s):

Alejandro Yarza

Publisher:
Edinburgh University Press
DOI:10.3366/edinburgh/9780748699247.003.0002

Francoist kitsch aesthetic and its proximity to the realm of political power is best exemplified by the film Raza (Race, José Luis Sáenz de Heredia, 1941), whose screenplay was written, under a pseudonym, by Franco himself. This chapter argues that the film exemplifies what Hermann Broch and Saul Friedländer have pinpointed as the essence of kitsch—the mixing of aesthetic and ethical categories culminating in the fetishization of suffering, violence and death.

Keywords:   Fascist Kitsch Aesthetics, Uplifting Kitsch, Franco’s screenplay, Francoist Cinema

Edinburgh Scholarship Online requires a subscription or purchase to access the full text of books within the service. Public users can however freely search the site and view the abstracts and keywords for each book and chapter.

Please, subscribe or login to access full text content.

If you think you should have access to this title, please contact your librarian.

To troubleshoot, please check our FAQs, and if you can't find the answer there, please contact us.