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Mobilizing Affect in Spanish Film and Screen Media from the Great Recession to the Present
  • ISSN: 2050-4837
  • E-ISSN: 2050-4845

Abstract

Centring on the politics of compassion in migrant films produced from the Great Recession of 2008 to the present, this article examines the affective strategies deployed by two Spanish melodramas featuring African protagonists who endure physical and psychological trauma in search of a better life. Engaging recent scholarship on global melodrama, I argue that (Alcantud 2013) and (Calvo 2020) look beyond European borders to identify the sociopolitical coordinates of suffering on a worldwide scale.

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