INTRODUCTION TO THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR FILMS AS FILM GENRE. HORROR, HISTORY, AND MELODRAMA

In Spain, since the Democratic Transition, there has been a regular production of movies about the Spanish Civil War and its consequences, and this article intends to approach the generic nature of these movies. As a basis we take the analysis of an important corpus of films that deal with both the Civil War and the transition to democracy in order to omit those movies where there is a recurring narrative structure and redundant content. To do so, the article addresses the particularities of other genres, such as fantasy, melodrama and tragedies that can be traced back to the 'civil war' genre.