Theories on cinema by Miguel Delibes

Abstract

From 1953 to 1999, Miguel Delibes published in different media a series of articles about cinema dealing with different aspects: he reviewed film premieres, reflected on genres, on Spanish and European cinema, on technical advances in the film industry and on some of the adaptations of his literary works to the cinema. All these documents, currently examined and taken together, make up a poetics of cinematographic art scarcely indicated to date and constitute an important contribution to the study of the history of film criticism in Spain. In this investigation I analyze and examine the main contributions of the writer to this poetics of cinema.