Visiones de Hollywood: la novela española como reflejo del debate cinematográfico de principios de siglo XX

Abstract

Visiones de Hollywood: la novela española como reflejo del debate  cinematográfico de principios de siglo XX addition, they included the cinema as a theme in their literary works. Some fundamental features of several novels of the first third of the 20th century are studied in this article, and they show the reflections and concerns that gave rise to this new art in the writers of the time. Through these texts, I shall explain some of the most important ideas that made debate over the cinema in those years, such as the falsity of the cinema, the mythomania created around the actors, the reflections on the public, the aesthetic possibilities of the new show and its comparison with the theatre. Almost all of them narrate the arrival in Hollywood of an aspiring actor and describe the environment of the metropolis of the cinema of the 1920s and 1930s. In some cases it is narrated from the perspective of the Vanguard novel and, in others, from the postulates of the pre-war social novel.