Imágenes de la nación española a través de Morena Clara (1936-1939), de Florián Rey y Luis Lucíade la II República al franquismo

Resumen

In 1936, just a few months before the beginning of the Civil War, the film Morena Clara was released and soon became a huge box office success. It is a musical movie starring Imperio Argentina and considered as españolada. Some years later, when Franco dictatorship was at its height, a remake of Morena Clara was made, starring Lola Flores. Both films are based on the same theater play, writen by Antonio Quintero and Pascual Guillén, that premiered at Teatro Cómico de Madrid in 1935. In this paper we will analyse cinema as a tool for national building, studying the image of Spain that arouses is in these two films, and, what it is even more interesting, comparing them in order to find significant changes in this image from the 30 ́s to the 50 ́s. It is, therefore, a comparative study interested in the relationship between cinematographic image and spanish nationalism, as well as the changes this image experienced over time and paying special attention to the historical context in which these two films were produced: Republic and Franco dictatorship.