MARKET HIGHLIGHTS OF THE REGULATION OF SPANISH CINEMA UNTIL THE 1970S

The paper contains a strictly legal and economic analysis of public policies in Spanish cinema production. Often the study of administrative law is limited to a discussion of the instruments, forgetting their evaluation and achieved results towards the ultimate goals of promoting the industry and national culture. It focuses on the regime’s interests reflected on the cinematographic sector of Spain; control, in connection with and resulting from the societal crisis, especially over the morality of a given product and over its economic parameters; censorship; control over information, quotas, subsidies, credits, etc.; market relations and a range of protectionist measures.