Antonio Martinez Illan

Universidad de Navarra | UNAV · School of Communication

The miniseries When They See Us constitutes an example of how a based-on-real-events fiction work can add to its poetic role the ability to participate in shaping democracy. Although journalism is not its central issue, this Netflix series makes a representation of the press in which it shows how the media failed in fulfilling its democratic role a...

This article studies the writing of the biography of three writers and journalists in Spain in the years prior to the Second Spanish Republic and until the beginning of the Spanish Civil War in 1936. The new biography, a type of literary biography or novella following the European model of Lytton Strachey, Virginia Woolf, André Maurois or Stefan Zw...

Miguel Delibes (1920–2010), together with Federico García Lorca and Rafael Alberti, has been the most translated Spanish writer in the Soviet Union, and his texts have been used for the teaching of Spanish in many universities and schools. The translated work of Delibes has been formative for the imaginary of both Hispanists and readers, with respe...

El objetivo de este artículo es mostrar cómo la imagen que dio Manuel Chaves Nogales de la revolución rusa a través de sus artículos en los años treinta, siendo vanguardia del periodismo de entonces, tuvo un sentido histórico. La hipótesis es que el periodismo, informando sobre el presente, puede aportar a los historiadores alguna lección. Para mos...

Biography was introduced naturally in journalism through portrait genres. In the nineteenth century, the biography was a didactic content because it was being imported from history or literature with minor changes. In the twentieth century, it changed to the needs and peculiarities of the emerging and ever-changing journalistic genres; looking for...

This article explores two literary works based on the life of Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky between the years 1867 and 1869: Лето в Бадене (Summer in Baden-Baden, 1982) by Leonid Tsypkin and The Master of Petersburg (1994) by J. M. Coetzee. Both novels endeavor to understand Dostoevsky. Their approaches are characteristic of late twentieth-century...

Este artículo estudia el arte de la caracterización del periodista Manuel Chaves Nogales (Sevilla,1897 – Madrid, 1944) en una selección de sus textos periodísticos publicados en España. Se trata de 18 piezas de diferentes géneros (crónicas, semblanzas, reportajes, entrevistas) en los que la caracterización es elemento central. A través de ellos se...

This volume examines the challenges cinemas in small European countries have faced since 1989. It explores how notions of scale and »small cinemas« relate to questions of territory, transnational media flows, and globalization. Employing a variety of approaches from industry analysis to Deleuze & Guattari's concept of the »minor«, contributions add...

This article reconstructs the history of Soviet cinema exhibition in Spain since the 20s to late 90s of the last century. Through file producers and distributors, the use of magazines of the time tested two hypotheses. First, in Spain, the Soviet cinema that was shown was conditioned by the vicissitudes of history (one hand, in Spain the 2nd Republ...

Since its foundation in 1703, St Petersburg-Petrograd-Leningrad has become a recurrent myth of Russian culture. The city has been the symbol of the westernization of Russia. Different studies on this phenomenon have been limited to literary research on this mythmaking, but no approaches have been offered by film studies. This article offers an anal...

Don Quixote has been the foreign myth that has had most influence over Russian literature and culture. The Buketoff-Turkevich, Bagno or Monforte‟s studies have focused on the influence over Russian and Soviet literature, but no approaches have been offered by film studies. This article studies how the quixotic archetype has developed in Soviet cine...

Este artículo reconstruye la historia de la exhibición del cine soviético en España desde la década de los 20 hasta finales de los 90 del siglo pasado. A través de archivos de productores, distribuidores, del recurso a las revistas de la época se prueban dos hipótesis: primera, en España el cine soviético que se pudo ver estuvo condicionado por los...

Desde su fundación en 1703, San Petersburgo-Petrogrado-Leningrado ha sido un mito recurrente en la cultura rusa. La ciudad ha simbolizado la occidentalización de Rusia. Los estudios de este fenómeno se han centrado sobre todo en investigar cómo se creó mito en la literatura, pero no en el cine. Este artículo examina la representación de la ciudad e...