Nuestro Cinema

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Nuestro Cinema
CategoriesFilm magazine
FounderJuan Piqueras
Founded1932
First issueJune 1932
Final issueFebruary 1936
CountrySpain
Based inMadrid
LanguageSpanish
ISSN2107-5662
OCLC1026600646

Nuestro Cinema (Spanish: Our Cinema) was a film magazine which was published in Spain between 1932 and 1936 with a one-year interruption. Its subtitle was Cuadernos Internacionales de Valorizacion Cinematografica (Spanish: International Notebooks of Cinematographic Evaluation).[1] It was one of the earliest Spanish publications in its category and was the first Communist film magazine in Spain.[1]

History and profile[edit]

Nuestro Cinema was founded by Juan Piqueras in 1932.[1][2] In the first issue dated June 1932[3] the magazine billed itself as the "best" professional film publication free from superficial and sentimental contents unlike other film publications.[4] It was affiliated with the Communist Party[4] and had a Marxist orientation.[5] From its start in June 1932 to March 1933 Nuestro Cinema came out monthly.[3]

Piqueras edited the magazine from his Paris home.[1] Nuestro Cinema was published in Barcelona, but its editorial office was based in Madrid.[1] Piqueras published many articles in the magazine on the history of Spanish cinema.[2] These writings would be later published as a book.[2] The magazine frequently featured theoretical and historical issues about cinema.[3] It exclusively focused on left-wing movies, including those produced in the Soviet Union.[3] Nuestro Cinema also covered political agitation through articles on strikes, land reform, and the proclamation of the Catalan Statute.[6] Major contributors of the magazine were Antonio del Amo Algara, Juan Manuel Plaza, Germaine Dulac, Léon Moussinac, René Clair, Joris Ivens and Béla Balázs.[3]

Nuestro Cinema temporarily ceased publication in October 1933 and was restarted in January 1935.[3] In the second period its communist approach was not very evident.[3] It permanently folded in February 1936[3] because of financial problems and Juan Piqueras’s health problems.[7] The title of Nuestro Cine film magazine, which was started in 1961, was a reference to Nuestro Cinema.[7]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d e Enrique Fibla-Gutiérrez (Winter 2017). "Film called into action: Juan Piqueras, Léon Moussinac, Harry Alan Potamkin and the Internationale of film pedagogy". Screen. 58 (4): 417, 422. doi:10.1093/screen/hjx041.
  2. ^ a b c Lisa Jarvinen (Summer 2012). "Juan Piqueras Biography". Cinema Journal. 51 (4): 140. doi:10.1353/cj.2012.0092.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h Fernando Ramos Arenas (2016). "Film criticism as a political weapon: theory, ideology and film activism in Nuestro Cinema (1932–1935)". Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television. 36 (2): 214–216. doi:10.1080/01439685.2016.1167466. S2CID 216591963.
  4. ^ a b Évelyne Coutel (November 2019). "Un cinéma viril pour une Espagne virile: le combat de Nuestro Cinema (1932-1935)". Itinéraires. Littérature, textes, cultures. 2 (3). doi:10.4000/itineraires.6698. S2CID 213512071.
  5. ^ Carl-Henrik Bjerstrom (2014). Re-imagining the nation: Josep Renau and the politics of culture in Republican Spain, 1931-1919 (PhD thesis). University of London. p. 58.
  6. ^ Victoria Goberna (March 2004). "The IVAM Library Collection: Avant-garde magazines from the first half of the 20th century". Serials. 17 (1): 79. ISSN 0953-0460.
  7. ^ a b Enrique Fibla-Gutiérrez; Pablo La Parra-Pérez (2017). "Turning the camera into a weapon: Juan Piqueras's radical noncommercial film projects and their afterlives (1930s–1970s)". Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies. 18 (4): 342. doi:10.1080/14636204.2017.1380148. S2CID 148674533.

External links[edit]

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