Resumen de Catalan television documentaries and the Works of Dolors Genovès: the negotiations of memory in democratic Spain
This paper analyzes the ways in which recent Catalan television documentaries, particularly those directed by Dolors Genovés and the team of Montse Ar-mengou and Ricard Belis for TV3, depict Spain's traumatic past and participate in public debates about memory. I argue that Armengou and Belis's docu-mentaries attempt to construct a totalizing and coherent historical narrative whjle manipulating the spectators' emotions in order to further political agendas that depict the debate as only two-sided. Genovès's documentaries, on the other hand, effectively eschew Manichean discourse and distinguish themselves by illustrating a process through which history is constructed by the reappearance and recurrence of the traumatic event and the diffjculty of comprehending it.
