Cinema in the press in La Laguna before the civil war

Authors

  • Enrique Ramírez Guedes La Laguna University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4185/rlcs-1998-2144

Abstract

Con la llegada del cine a la ciudad de La Laguna (Tenerife, Islas Canarias), en 1906, la prensa local comienza a tomar conciencia de la importancia del nuevo medio y a realizar un minucioso seguimiento de su devenir. Ya desde los primeros momentos las páginas de los rotativos laguneros sirven como plataforma para la difusión de las ideas y opiniones que en materia cinematográfica se estaban gestando entre los intelectuales locales, provocando verdaderos debates sobre su utilidad, sus repercusiones éticas y morales, o, más relacionado con lo cinematográfico, su calidad estética. Este notable interés por el cine se mantiene como una constante hasta el estallido de la guerra civil española, época en que se extingue el último periódico de La Laguna.

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Author Biography

Enrique Ramírez Guedes, La Laguna University

PhD Professor in the Department of Art and Philosophy at the University of La Laguna. His research interests are mainly in the field of classical iconography and cinematography, especially the first decades of cinema in the Canary Islands, the Spanish cinema of the 40s, the avant-garde of the 60s and 70s in European cinema and classical literature and mythology in cinema.

Curator of the exhibition "Un mundo de película" and advisor to the exhibition "El Míster", within the framework of the XIII Festival de Cine Ecológico del Puerto de la Cruz, between November and December 1994. He coordinated the research and preparation of the Canary Islands Film Archive Catalogue of productions from 1951-1970, between 2007 and 2012.
FPI scholarship holder from the Ministry of Education in the Department of Art History at the ULL between 1997 and 2000. Elías Serra Ràfols" Historical Research Award 2000, La Laguna City Council. Special mention by the jury in the "Viera y Clavijo" Historical Research Prize 2000 of the Casa de Colón in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Doctoral thesis "(Re) Visions of Homer. Readings of Homeric poetry in the light of cinematographic epic". Study on the adaptations of Homer's Iliad to the cinema.

Published

1998-01-10

How to Cite

Ramírez Guedes, Enrique. 1998. “Cinema in the Press in La Laguna before the Civil War”. Revista Latina De Comunicación Social, no. 53 (January):351-58. https://doi.org/10.4185/rlcs-1998-2144.

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Miscellaneous