Only five months after the Lumière brothers presented their invention at the Gran Café in Paris, the film apparatus was exhibited in a hotel in Madrid showing a bullfight movie: “Madrid, the arrival of the bullfighters”, which was the beginning of a long history as corroborated by the study “Spanish bullfighting cinema: A cultural history”.
This history of Spanish bullfighting cinema has as its embryo the doctoral thesis – the first on this subject – of its author, Silvia Caramella, and in this edition of the Real Maestranza de Sevilla it is prefaced by the journalist, writer and photographer Muriel Feiner, who has already counted more than 600 “bullfighting” films, including feature films, shorts, documentaries, cartoons and films containing bullfighting sequences, produced in more than a dozen countries throughout the history of cinema.
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