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Asturias y los Teleclubs Una revisión acerca de las salas de televisión en España y su incidencia en Asturias = The TV clubs. A review about television rooms in Spain and their impact in Asturias

2016; National University of Distance Education; Issue: 29 Linguagem: Inglês

10.5944/etfv.29.2017.15298

2340-1451

Javier Martín-Antón,

Cinema History and Criticism

In the 50´s a phenomenon emerged on the back of Francoism which was more developed in the countryside; living quarters, stables and all kinds of properties were used as casual television rooms. In the eyes of the dictatorship those spontaneous meetings beyond its control with the aim of watching television held some dangers since they could lead to ideological debates critical of the regime. Faced with the dilemma of prohibiting or permitting them freely, the Francoism chose a third option: to control them. It gave them a name and established a legal framework to regulate them. In conclusion, it absorbed them to convert them into something of its own. Thus appeared the National TV club network: a control and propaganda tool. But those TV clubs distorted the origin of the phenomenon and its image nowadays.This work is about the revision of the concept, its evolution and introduction in the concrete case of Asturias.