Cines: espejos socioeconómicos e instrumentos institucionales, historia de los cines de las comarcas tarraconenses (1956-2009)

Identifier:  TDX:2765

Handle: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11797/TDX2765

Authors:  López Sánchez, Isaac

Abstract:
Cinemas: socio-economic mirrors and institutional instruments. History of cinemas in the Tarragona region 1956-2009’ is an interdisciplinary study of contemporary history of five transcendental decades for the province of Tarragona, in which there was an important urban, economic, political and demographic metamorphosis. The cinemas in Tarragona are used as socioeconomic thermometers for this change, but always having a historical background in Catalonia, Spain, Europe and America. The commencement date of the thesis, 1956, coincides with the peak in the proliferation of cinemas, with more than 330 registered in the province, among commercial, parochial and educational. Not to mention those cinemas, which acted on the sidelines and went unnoticed by the administration for years; rooms supervised from 1965, with the Control of Lockers. The study concludes in 2009, coinciding with the analogue blackout and, the process of digitalization of rooms in the exhibition sector.