Abstract
This article examines the role of audio-visual media in the negotiation and representation of cultural memory in contemporary Spain. The political silencing of one version of history during the Francoist dictatorship and the Transition to democracy sees the country battling with over 70 years of ideological manipulation of history and silencing of personal recollections. This article looks at the way in which the media are playing a significant role in sustaining, renegotiating and remediating memory in the light of the silence that precedes it. It argues that testimony, television and other popular media forms deserve sustained critical attention with regard to the creation of memory in Spain and should not be dismissed as simply vehicles for nostalgia or as spurious recreation of a brutal past but that, in line with work on the dynamics of cultural memory, should be seriously considered as part of attempts to redress the legacy of silence and mobilise a discourse of memory.
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