{"title":"Framing Emotions: White Romance and Colonial Melodramas During Francoism","authors":"Diana Arbaiza","doi":"10.1080/24741604.2022.2088922","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article examines two lesser-known colonial melodramas released during the Francoist period, Obsesión (1947) by Arturo Ruiz Castillo and Piedra de toque (1964) by Julio Buchs. Melodrama is not a genre prominently associated with colonial cinema, but it was the most popular style within the Spanish cinematographic production on Equatorial Guinea. In this article I explore why directors privileged this genre in representing the Spanish colony, and I examine how the white love triangle served disparate purposes in these films, from conveying subversive meanings to reinforcing normative ideologies.","PeriodicalId":37212,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies","volume":"6 1","pages":"281 - 301"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/24741604.2022.2088922","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"Arts and Humanities","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract This article examines two lesser-known colonial melodramas released during the Francoist period, Obsesión (1947) by Arturo Ruiz Castillo and Piedra de toque (1964) by Julio Buchs. Melodrama is not a genre prominently associated with colonial cinema, but it was the most popular style within the Spanish cinematographic production on Equatorial Guinea. In this article I explore why directors privileged this genre in representing the Spanish colony, and I examine how the white love triangle served disparate purposes in these films, from conveying subversive meanings to reinforcing normative ideologies.