Juan de Orduña y Fernández-Shaw (27 December 1900 – 3 February 1974) was a Spanish film director, screenwriter and actor. Subservient to the ideological tenets and preferences of Francoism,[1] he was one of the regime's standout directors during the autarchy period.[2] Nevertheless, his film "Follow the Legion" has been seen as a disguised story of homosexual love, and de Orduña was a homosexual.[3] He particularly earned recognition for his epic-historicist films,[4] including the extravagant Madness for Love (1948), "an immense commercial success".[5]
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Further reading
Juan-Navarro, Santiago. "De los orígenes del Estado español al Nuevo Estado: La construcción de la ideología franquista en Alba de América, de Juan de Orduña." Anales de la Literatura Española Contemporánea 33.1 (2008): 79–104. [1]
Juan-Navarro, Santiago. "La Patria enajenada: Locura de Amor, de Juan de Orduña, como alegoría nacional." Hispania 88.1 (2005): 204–15. [2]
Juan-Navarro, Santiago. "Political Madness: Juan de Orduña's Locura de amor as a National Allegory." Juana of Castile: History and Myth of the Mad Queen. Eds. María A. Gómez et al. Lewisburg and London: Bucknell University Press, 2008. [3]
