Journalists and movies in Madrid (1907-1913). Approach to a reception of the early cinema in the press

Abstract

The target of this work is to offer the first approach to the reception of movies in the early cinema in Madrid (1907-1913), from the journalists who were writing on press at those moment. There works gave rise to the first speeches about cinema in Madrid, which turned into an important part in the process of institutionalization of production, distribution and cinematographic exhibition. Simultaneously, It is taken an opportunity to name a serie of journalists who wrote the first chronicles about the Cinematograph. It is based in the textual analysis of the articles about movies written by Julio Camba, Andrenio (Eduardo Gómez Baquero), Miquis (Anastasio Anselmo González), Carlos Luis de Cuenca and José María Jurado, as the first set of sources that allow to know the reception in the press of Madrid in the early cinema. The result of this analysis is the observation of the existence of three types of speeches in cinema: a popular speech, an educational speech and an esthetic speech. These three speeches set the fundation of a later cinematographic criticism and, consequently, eased the appear of an anautonomous cinematographic culture, whitin there began the gradual institutional consolidation of the movies concerning the narrative fiction full-lenght films.