Cinema and sport. Class, gender and the national question
Activity organised by the Grupo de Estudos Audiovisuais, Cinema.Col.lectiu d'Investigació Estètica dels Mitjans Audiovisuals and Cineclube de Compostela
On 14 and 15 September 2023, the seminar Cinema and sport. Class, genre and national question will be held in the Auditorium of the Faculty of Communication Sciences of the USC. This seminar is organised by the Grupo de Estudos Audiovisuais of the University of Santiago de Compostela, Cinema. Col.lectiu d’Investigació Estètica des Mitjans Audiovisuals of the Pompeu Fabra University and the Cineclube of Compostela.
The meeting will be attended by Margarita Ledo, Emeritus Professor of Audiovisual Communication at the USC, José Luis Castro de Paz, Professor of Audiovisual Communication, and María Soliña Barreiro, professor and researcher. Representing the Pompeu Fabra University will be Manuel Garin, Albert Elduque, Nuria Cancela and Laia Puig. The photographer and researcher Vitor Vaqueiro and the publishing house Meninho Morreu will also take part.
Activities and Workshops:
Thursday 14
10.00. Welcome – Margarita Ledo.
10.15. Opening of the conference: Manuel Garin and María Soliña Barreiro.
SPORT AND CLASS: MEDIA, FIGURES, VISUAL MOTIFS
10:30. Ricardo Zamora and the fascist MARCA: mediatising, politicising, disciplining – Manuel Garin.
11:15. Football and class: two visual motifs – María Soliña Barreiro and Albert Elduque.
12:15. Break.
GENDER, SPORT AND FILM STARDOM
12.45. Playing in the star system: cinema, sport and film stars – Nuria Cancela and José Luis Castro de Paz.
13:30. From the altar to the home: footballers’ wives in the press and in Franco’s newsreels – Laia Puig.
14:30. Lunch break.
THE NATIONAL QUESTION: ARCHIVES AND GEOGRAPHIES
16:00. Photography, football and fascism in the Pacheco Archive – Vítor Vaqueiro.
17:00. Football, politics and literature from Galicia: dialogue with the publishing house Meninho Morreu.
9.30 p.m. CINECLUBE DE COMPOSTELA
PROJECTION OF BROKEN TOYS (Summers, 1966) Presentation by Ariadna Cordal and the collective Memoria e Cinema.
Friday 15
VIEWING WORKSHOP
FOOTBALL IN THE NOT-DO: GESTURES, FIGURES, RHETORICS
10:00. News selected, classified and extracted from the NO-DO archive. Debate on methodological, thematic and staging aspects.
14:00. Closing.
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