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Paisajes, pasajes y paisanajes de la memoria : la historia como simultaneidad de la comedia española de los 90

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Starting in the `60s and continuing into the following decades, a thematic and artistic style was created in Spanish cinema to represent the history of the Spanish Civil War and its subsequent dictatorship. Although this genre is still prominent in the `90s (with directors such as Aranda, Garci, Mercero, or Miró), a new model of historical representation has recently appeared, which focuses primarily on the `60s and `70s. El amor perjudica seriamente la salud (Gómez Pereira, 1997) and Muertos de risa (Alex de la Iglesia, 1999) exemplify the new model whose sole claim to historical authenticity is the mass media. The limited focus on the mass media is symptomatic of another issue beleaguering our era: the typically postmodern paradox of a history that is simultaneously present, eternal and summation a b s t r a c t of the past.