Mónica Olivares Leyva compiled a database of Spanish censorship board reports on Graham Greene's play The Living Room. The dataset examines reports submitted during the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. It was harvested from e-cienciaDatos and last updated on April 21, 2026.
Use Cases
- Analyze censorship criteria and language based on the reports' content.
- Study the evolution of state control over culture based on reports spanning three decades.
- Examine the reception of foreign literary works in Francoist Spain based on the specific play.
- Conduct textual analysis of bureaucratic documents from the Spanish censorship board.
Strengths
- Focuses on a specific, historically significant play and political context.
- Covers reports from three distinct decades (1950s-1970s).
- Author and last update date are explicitly provided.
Limitations
- Row count, column names, and file formats are unknown, limiting suitability assessment.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection.
Provenance
- Source
- e-cienciaDatos Harvested Dataverse
- Collection Method
- Examination of censors' reports submitted to the Spanish censorship board.
- Time Range
- 1950s, 1960s, 1970s
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-21 17:34:05.
- Geography
- Spain