Directorate General of Cinematography and Theatre

The Directorate General of Cinematography and Theatre (Spanish: Dirección General de Cinematografía y Teatro; DGCT) was a department of the Francoist dictatorship with the rank of directorate-general charged with the control of cinema and theatre in Spain, including the scope of censorship.

History

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The body was created in 1946, by means of the development of a decree from 31 December 1945. The DGCT was originally attached to the Undersecretariat of Popular Education of the Ministry of National Education [es]. Gabriel García Espina was the first leader of the new directorate general.[1]

In the wake of the administrative restructuring of 1951, several areas were removed from the ministerial department of National Education, as the aptitude of incoming minister Joaquín Ruiz-Giménez as censor was put into question. These areas (including the DGCT) were thus transferred to the newly-born Ministry of Information and Tourism, led by Gabriel Arias Salgado.[2]

From 1962 onward—a period of purported "openness" during the second spell at the helm of the DGCT of José María García Escudero [es]—the DGCT promoted and sponsored what it came to be known as "New Spanish Cinema", even though filmmakers were not fully exempt from censorship.[3]

The DGCT disappeared in late 1967, when it was demoted to the rank of under-directorate reportedly because of budget cuts and was subsumed within the new Directorate General of Popular Culture and Spectacles, led by Carlos Robles Piquer.[4]

References

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  1. ^ Cal 1999, pp. 19, 23; León Aguinaga 2010, p. 230.
  2. ^ Cancio Fernández 2009, p. 161.
  3. ^ Cancio Fernández 2009, pp. 170–171.
  4. ^ Merino & Rabadán 2002, p. 147; Cancio Fernández 2009, pp. 172–173

Bibliography

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  • Cal, Rosa (1999). "Apuntes sobre la actividad de la Dirección General de Propaganda del Franquismo (1945-1951)". Historia y Comunicación Social (4). Madrid: Ediciones Complutense: 15. ISSN 1137-0734.
  • Cancio Fernández, Raúl C. (2009). "La acción administrativa sobre el hecho cinematográfico durante el franquismo" (PDF). Revista de Derecho UNED (5). Madrid: Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia: 149–183. ISSN 1886-9912.
  • León Aguinaga, Pablo (2010). Sospechosos habituales. El cine norteamericano, Estados Unidos y la España. Madrid: consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas. ISBN 978-84-00-09079-1.
  • Merino, Raquel; Rabadán, Rosa (2002). "Censored Translations in Franco's Spain: The TRACE Project —Theatre and Fiction (English-Spanish)". Censure et traduction dans le monde occidental. 15 (2). Association canadienne de traductologie: 125–152. doi:10.7202/007481ar. ISSN 0835-8443.

 

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