La representación de la corrupción en el cine español de los años 40

Abstract

Under the research project "History of corruption from visual culture: discourses, practices and representations in Contemporary Spain", this text aims to approach Spanish cinema in the 1940s, understood as a vehicle for representation and fixation of the idea of corruption in these initial moments of the Franco regime. From the analysis of a large set of film productions of different genres of this decade, we focus the study of the construction of filmic discourse on corruption (and its representation according the institutional censorship codes), the construction of an imaginary where one discriminates between “representable corruption” -both because it is located in political scenarios of the liberal 19th century and because it appears on the lower margins of the social fabric of the moment- and the thunderous silence on institutionalized practices such as today the majority academic consensus defines Franco's Spain.