Caramella, Silvia GENESIS, EVOLUTION AND REVOLUTION OF BULLFIGHTING IMAGES IN SPANISH FILMS: A CULTURAL HISTORY OF CINE TAURINO. Doctoral thesis, University of Sunderland. Downloaded from: http://sure.sunderland.ac.uk/id/eprint/8555/ Usage guidelines Please refer to the usage guidelines at http://sure.sunderland.ac.uk/policies.html or alternatively contact
[email protected]. GENESIS, EVOLUTION AND REVOLUTION OF BULLFIGHTING IMAGES IN SPANISH FILMS: A CULTURAL HISTORY OF CINE TAURINO SILVIA CARAMELLA A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements of the University of Sunderland for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy July 2017 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledegements 4 Further acknowledgements 7 Abstract 9 Introduction 10 Chapter 1: Engaging with Spanish cine taurino 14 1.1 Cine taurino: building filmographies, settling methodologies 14 1.2 Tauromachy and identity 21 Chapter 2: The genesis of cine taurino: (inter)national sources, national 27 cinemas, national identities (1896-1931) 2.1 The ‘foreign’ birth of cine taurino 27 2.2 Cine taurino and narrative developments: Gaumont and Films H. B. 31 Cuesta, models of ‘foreign’ and of Spanish cinema 2.2.1 Two exemplary production companies 31 2.2.2 Gaumont, the metamorphosis and the anthropomorphic bull 33 2.2.3 Films H. B. Cuesta and the birth of Spanish cine taurino 39 2.3 Sources, subgenres and themes in the development of cine taurino 50 2.3.1 Fiesta Nacional, ‘national’ sources, ‘national’ archetypes 50 2.3.2 The novel as the main source of Spanish cine taurino 55 2.3.3 Zarzuelas