The present research has as its object of study the cinema of uncovering, a cinema that is defined by the irruption on the screen of naked bodies, mostly female; a phenomenon that acquired great social and political significance in Spain and that is unparalleled in cinematographies of other countries. To analyze the cinema of the uncover from a historical perspective, we have established the beginning of the investigation in the sexy Celtiberian comedies of the late Franco period. These are highly popular comedies in which we find the roots of that need for sexual liberation that, once the censorship is over, will be shown to shape the phenomenon of uncovering. If we consider that there is its origin, we establish its end with the approval in 1984 of the exhibition of cinema X, a factor that indicates the normalization of the life of Spaniards with respect to sex and that coincides with the consolidation of democracy. During the approximately twenty years that this research covers, we will see how, through the most consumed cinema, discourses around the female body were uncovered, closely linked to the weight of Franco’s morality and the established gender order. Hence, we have mainly focused our research on analyzing the discursive construction of the male and female archetypes, focusing on observing the continuities and fissures of the gender order, using the female uncovering as a pretext. We have analyzed this cinema as a source through which to re-read a very analyzed historical period but on which new and complex readings can be poured. In this way, we have differentiated films with nudity from films that reveal frustrated behaviors, emotions and desires, especially in the sexual field. The popular cinema of those years had an enormous capacity to entertain and excite millions of Spaniards and thus was used as a means of transmitting the official Francoist discourse, both to perpetuate the regime and its ideology and to adapt to the new times. This fictional cinema with a superfluous and inoffensive appearance represents the mechanisms of power and their backbones in the field of social behavior. But, in turn —and that has been one of the objectives of this research—, it presents deviations in the way of acting of its archetypes that advance the change that is taking place, which makes this cinema agent and witness of a relevant Historic moment.
