The journey of provincial symbolism: from novels to provincial films
Abstract
Provincial symbolism has been recognised exclusively by scholars in its nineteenth-century period of emergence as a novel with an urban profile. It is behind famous works by Balzac, Flaubert, Galdós and Clarín, among others. The subsequent evolution of the provincial novel with its expansion into the rural space and the transfer of all its variants to the cinema are less studied phenomena. We intend to shed light on the last of these chapters, in which the provincial is offered as a film genre, by diving first into the cultural roots of its symbolism, laying the foundations of its genre and exemplifying its filmic ramifications through the analysis of spanish films that, for the most part, adapt provincial novels.
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