Cinema, whether it is understood as entertainment, business,
criticism, or art, is always a reflection of the society in which
it is born. Men on the Screen is a review of masculinity in cinema
made in Spain by Spanish directors from 1939 to the present. The
objective of this volume is, then, to observe the different types
of masculinities, whose classification gives rise to a chronology
that goes from the man who embodies the dream dreamt by the
dictator Franco to the modern man, who is lost in his labyrinth,
while also examining the repressed men, those men who have strayed
and who live in the city, the rascals and braggarts, those who
fight every day just to survive, the petty criminals, those men who
divest themselves of the rancid national-Catholicism in order to be
themselves, those who are caring, those who harass and kill their
prey, the heroes, those who seduce women with their gab, corrupt
politicians, those who sell their bodies, grandparents, violent and
chauvinistic men, those who live in anguish for the passage of
time, and even those immured by repressing and hypocritical
morality. All of the masculine categories delineated above indicate
that cinema is a reflection of the great changes experienced by
Spanish society during these years. During this long period, Spain
has gone from being a poor, isolated, dark, sad, politically and
religiously depressed country to becoming a dynamic, modern
country, one of the great countries of the West. And these
transformations, these men, who are diverse, who are in conflict at
times, and who are depressed, hopeful, hungry, consumerist, and
dreamers-they are what cinema gathers. What follows next is a
catalog of men who have wandered and roamed the Spanish screens.
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