Professor José Luis Castro de Paz presents his new book ‘Cinema and exile: Form(s) of absence’

On Saturday, June 23, at 11:00 h in the Rialto Building in Valencia, the professor of the Faculty of Communication Sciences and Professor of Audiovisual Communication at the USC, José Luis Castro de Paz , will present its new book ‘Cinema and Exile: Form(s) of the absence ‘ within the framework of the Festival València International CinemaJove . The event, organized by CinemaJove and the Shangrila publishing house, will be attended by Juan Miguel Company, writer and Professor of Audiovisual Communication at the Universitat de València.

“What may have been one of the causes of the Republican defeat, that bustling disorder of the feverish and ardent masses that populate the war reports of the side loyal to the democratic government, was soon to become the most painful procession of humiliated and mutilated people, scarcely without features and nameless, abandoning their country forever and leaving behind so deep scars in the painful Spanish land that the cinematographic cameras will not be able to fail to notice, even unwittingly, their ominous presence. Of these and other films – approaching them with the methodological weapons of film analysis, without neglecting the necessary historical contextualization – they try to give an account, lucid but passionately, of the pages of this book.”