Filmando el cambio social

Las películas de la Transición

Abstract

Sánchez Noriega, José Luis (ed.). Filmando el cambio social. Las películas de la Transición. Barcelona: Laertes, 2014, 371 pp. ISBN 978-84-7584-958-4. The volume analyzes nearly one hundred films from Spanish cinema during the Transition period (1976-1984) to document the profound social, political, and cultural transformations experienced in Spain during those years. Through documentary films, quinqui cinema, social comedies, and an emerging women's cinema, the various chapters—the result of a collective research project coordinated by Sánchez Noriega—trace how cinema critically revisited the Francoist past, questioned the morality of National Catholicism, and promoted new ideas about sexuality and identity. The work concludes that Transition-era cinema was not merely a reflection of social change but an active agent in constructing democratic values and opening spaces of representation previously silenced.