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- Title
Juan Piqueras Biography.
- Authors
Jarvinen, Lisa
- Abstract
The article presents a biography of 20th-century Spanish film critic Juan Piqueras, who was born in 1904 and died in 1936. Piqueras frew up in a poor family and became a film journalist after moving to Valencia, Spain. He worked for the journal "Gaceta literaria" in Madrid, Spain and moved to Paris, France in 1930 to work for the film company Filmófono and founded the journal "Nuestro cinema" in 1932. Also discussed are Piqueras's leftist political beliefs and his death during the Spanish civil war.
- Subjects
PIQUERAS, Juan, 1937-; FILM criticism; FILM critics; FILM periodicals; SPANISH films -- History &; criticism; HISTORY
- Publication
Cinema Journal, 2012, Vol 51, Issue 4, p139
- ISSN
0009-7101
- Publication type
Biography
- DOI
10.1353/cj.2012.0097