The Arcadian-Idyllic Space in Spanish Affair's Spain
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In the mid-1950s, the co-production Spanish Affair (Don Siegel, 1957), starring Carmen Sevilla and Richard Kiley, was filmed in Spain and premiered internationally, while a Hollywood exports embargo to Spain was in force. Government representatives abroad complained to Spanish organizations for allowing a foreign production in Spanish territory, which according to their testimonies damaged the country's image. Taking as a tool the analysis of places in Spanish tourist films by Nieto Ferrando, del Rey Reguillo and Afinoguenova, this paper studies the characteristics of this film that configure Spain as an arcadian-idyllic place. The results of the analysis and the comparison with the aforementioned article suggest that the complaints, although accurate about the folklore and traditionalism represented, would not be consistent with the official position of the government. This imaginary was the trend in Spanish films that promoted the national territory as a tourist destination, which proliferated in the fifties and coincided with the slogan Spain is different promoted by official organizations since the beginning of that decade.
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