SPAN W3555 - Film, Just Arrived, Spain (1896-1936)

Institution:

Columbia University in the City of New York

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Just a few years after its arrival, that newly circus attraction called cinema became a mass phenomenon of unprecedented influence in the social and cultural Spanish context. Writers, artists, politicians reacted with fascination, enthusiasm or fear. The new media was the focus of a complex debate in which historical transformations were being perceived and thought as mediated by the new apparatus. Literature, painting and other artistic forms got inspired and radically transformed by the newcomer but the same could be said about an audience whose collective conscience and image of itself were now conditioned by film spectatorship. If the nation was now something like a film audience, considering what would appear in the screen and its potential for subjection or liberation, was the focus of a rich collective dialogue, not only in newspapers and the public sphere but also in a multiplicity of artistic media.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.columbia.edu

Phone Number:

(212) 854-1754

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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