Cinema in Literary Journals (First Third of the Twentieth Century)

Abstract

Although numerous periodical publications and websites exist today, in Spain and abroad, at the beginning of the 20th century, literary magazines were the main forum for the so-called “new art”. Very prominent authors such as Alfonso Reyes, Federico de Onís, Ramón Gómez de la Serna, Antonio Espina, César Arconada, Benjamín Jarnés, Francisco Ayala, Rosa Chacel or Fernando Vela dedicated important articles to cinema. In this work, we analyze how cinematography broke into the Spanish magazines of those years, causing the different perspectives of a discourse to evolve and laying the foundations for what Spanish film criticism would later become.