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El Espíritu de la Colmena (1973), Victor Erice

Unveiling the Monster: Memory and Film in Post-Dictatorial Spain

Honors Thesis on how three Spanish films — El Espíritu de la Colmena (Erice, 1973), El Laberinto del Fauno (Del Toro, 2006), and Balada Triste de Trompeta (De la Iglesia, 2011) — use the aesthetics of the Gothic and the Grotesque to question official narratives of the Civil War and Franco’s dictatorship. Honors thesis in Film Studies, Connecticut College, 2014.

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