La adopción literaria del "nuevo cine español"

Abstract

The literary adaptations performed by the directors of the 60's New Spanish Cinema, presented as a fresh and renovated tendency, reflect a setback towards neo-realistic works from the 50's and to consecrated figures from the "Generation of '98". Nevertheless, this adaptations, pretending to comply with Franco's regime for political support towards the cinema through literary prestige, maliciously achieve adaptations of historical references into clear pictures of the social and cultural conditions of the 60' decade. On the other hand, opposing the traditional guidelines followed by the New Cinema tendency, the School of Barcelona, represented by Gonzalo Suarez, writer or director of his own adaptations, accomplishes a type of cinematographic work that exhibits a more innovating character, almost revolutionary, but lacking political help and without the public support.