Modern Foreign Language
La Movida Madrileña and Post-Franco Cultural Liberation, As Seen in Chus Gutiérrez’s Film, El Calentito
Document Type
Oral Presentation
Location
Indianapolis, IN
Subject Area
Modern Foreign Language
Start Date
11-4-2014 9:00 AM
End Date
11-4-2014 10:30 AM
Sponsor
Linda Willem (Butler University)
Description
After the death of dictator Francisco Franco in 1975, Spain entered a period of transition toward democracy. With censorship, prohibitions, and restrictions finally lifted, the Spanish people were, for the first time in more than forty years, free to express their sexuality and art. This gave rise to La Movida Madrileña, the Madrid Movement. Young people led this countercultural expression of all that had been repressed during conservative . Using Chus Gutiérrez's movie, El Calentito, as an illustration, I will enlighten an American audience about the sudden and condensed explosion of art, punk, and drugs that defined Madrid and Spain for nearly a decade, and I will explore la libertad, the freedom of expression that was the concrete manifestation of the country's newfound political freedom.
La Movida Madrileña and Post-Franco Cultural Liberation, As Seen in Chus Gutiérrez’s Film, El Calentito
Indianapolis, IN
After the death of dictator Francisco Franco in 1975, Spain entered a period of transition toward democracy. With censorship, prohibitions, and restrictions finally lifted, the Spanish people were, for the first time in more than forty years, free to express their sexuality and art. This gave rise to La Movida Madrileña, the Madrid Movement. Young people led this countercultural expression of all that had been repressed during conservative . Using Chus Gutiérrez's movie, El Calentito, as an illustration, I will enlighten an American audience about the sudden and condensed explosion of art, punk, and drugs that defined Madrid and Spain for nearly a decade, and I will explore la libertad, the freedom of expression that was the concrete manifestation of the country's newfound political freedom.