Intelectuales y cine en el segundo franquismode las Conversaciones de Salamanca al nuevo cine español

Abstract

The article is about intellectuals and the cinema during the later stage of Franco's regime and is an attempt to document the birth of an intelligentsia within and around the world of cinema during the 50s. This intelligentsia made a significant contribution in the 60s through specialized magazines and "new Spanish cinema" films.The beginning of this intelligentsia movement was marked by the famous National Cinema Conversations celebrated in Salamanca and organized by the SEU of that University in 1955. We can distinguish three groups within the intelligentsia: Direct participants in the films (directors, screenwriters and producers), the people who wrote the magazine reviews and some politicians such as José María García Escudero, who was twice Director of Cinematography and Theatre.