The Return of the Ethno-nation
Crisis, Migration and Banal Nationalism in Nacho García Velilla’s Perdiendo el norte and Buscando el norte
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21726817 |
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| Authors | DAVID COLBERT-GOICOA (Sewanee: The University of the South, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 100 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 201-217 |
| Publication date | 2023-02-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Bulletin of Hispanic Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1475-3839 • E-ISSN: 1478-3398 |
| Publisher | Liverpool University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3828/bhs.2023.15 |
| OpenAlex | W4321202081 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 12 |
The Spanish financial crisis (2008–2014) provided a frequent topic for Spanish film at approximately the same period that the hit Ocho apellidos vascos signalled a turn to ethnic humour in Spanish film and television. This paper analyses the banal nationalism of two mainstream audiovisual comedies capitalizing on both trends: the movie Perdiendo el norte (2015) and television series Buscando el norte (2016), both directed by Nacho García Velilla. The film and the series both portray the plight of economic migrants from Spain to Germany. However, rather than take up the indignados’ protest, they delight in Spanish difference while lamenting the country’s secondary status vis-à-vis a wealthy Europe embodied by Germany, naturalizing the existence of a Spanish nation with certain ethnic traits and glossing over Spain’s lack of internal unity
Art · Ethnic group · Garcia · Humanities · Mainstream · Nationalism · Political science · Politics · Hispanic-African Historical Relations · History · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Law · Spanish Culture and Identity
| Highly cited | No |
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