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   Mexican Cinema

Reflections of a Society, 1896-2004

 

Cinema Studies at the University of Barcelona

The Centre for Cinematic Research FILM-HISTORIA was founded in 1983 and is based at the University of Barcelona, Spain. It was patterned after similar foreign organizations such as the Historians' Film Committee (U.S.A.), Le Institut Jean Vigo (Perpignan, France), and the International Association for Media and History (IAMHIST).

The goal of our association is to bring together diverse experts and professionals from the different branches of cinema, theoreticians as well as technicians, along with skilled amateurs and others with an interest in the film experience, with the aim of promoting cultural activities designed to encourage a higher understanding of the Seventh Art. The Centre's specific goals are:

Our first project was production of a video entitled History of the Cinema: Silent Era, 1895-1930. Produced by Editorial Casals, it won two special awards: Best Video for Historical Research in the First International Video Festival in Andorra (1983) and Best Educational Video Film of 1984, chosen by the readers of Video Actualidad magazine.

Among other activities organized by the Centre are the following:

  • International summer seminars on Spanish cinema held in 1993 and 1997 which brought together scholars from universities in the United States, Japan and Taiwan.

  • The film festival, "Jornades d'Historia i Cinema", in cooperation with the Central University of Barcelona

  • Presentation of the FILM-HISTORIA award to the best historical film, director, and research of the year. Some previous recipients of the award have been Akira Kurosawa, Woody Allen, Steven Spielberg, Víctor Erice, Mario Camus, and Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón. Prominent scholars who have received the award are Jean Mitry, Marc Ferro, Marcel Oms, Miquel Porter-Moix, and Emilio García Riera.

  • Presentations of Spanish Film Weeks at the University of Texas, Austin and the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque (U.S.A) in 1987 and the University of Southampton (U.K.) in 1989.

  • The International Conference on War, Film, and Society held at the University of Barcelona on February 12-15, 1992.

  • The film journal FILM-HISTORIA, published in print from 1991 to 2000, went to an exclusive on-line edition beginning in 2001. Links to the online edition and the print edition archive are listed in the Table of Contents below.

Table of Contents

- FILM-HISTORIA Faculty -

- FILM-HISTORIA Online Journal /· Archive 1991-2003 /· Monographs -

- FIEALC Congresses /· 1999, Israel /· 2001, Moscow -


-Courses, Seminars, and Conferences -

- 2006 Conference: Visual Synergies: Fiction and Documentary Film in Latin America, June 23-26. Royal Holloway University, University of London and University of Cambridge -

- "2001 Conference on Moroccan and Spanish Cinema" -

- 1999 Course: "Cultural, Ideological, and Musical Perceptions in Cinema," University of Salamanca -

- 1998 Course: "Spain and the Americas" · University of New Mexico -

- 1997 Seminar: "The New Spanish Cinema," University of Barcelona -


   Mexican Cinema: Reflections of a Society, 1896-2004


- ANTHROPOS Monographs -

- Other Film Links -

For more information, contact:

José M. Caparrós-Lera
FILM - HISTORIA
Facultad de Historia
c/ Montalegre, 6
08001 BARCELONA
SPAIN
phone: SPAIN: 34 93 333 3466, x3137
fax: SPAIN: 34 93 449 8510
email: filmhistoria@yahoo.es
        Carl J. Mora
 Department of Media Arts
MSC04 2570
Ceria Bldg, #83, Room 370
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131 USA
phone: USA: 505 277-6262
fax: USA: 505 277 5989
email: xenamora@hotmail.com





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