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The Rhetoric Of Fascist Spain

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By using a skewed representation of reality, the imagination, cinema and literature can be liberative spaces from the restrictive normative code of the world. By using these fantastic creatures and over-emphasized character to portray Fascist Spain, the audience is, in some ways, less conscious of what they are experiencing or watching; they do not merely hear the common political rhetoric of an editorial.

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