Monday, May 31, 2010

Desnudo Delorrena Herrera

Civil War (Show Miguel Hernández)

famous photograph by Robert Capa, The death of a militiaman , broke the English Civil War in the world (obtained from bibliocriptana.feles.worpress . com)

The July 18, 1936 part of the army took up arms against the Popular Front Republican government to establish a dictatorship led by General Mola in Navarra and General Franco in North Africa. However, the coup failed to dominate no large cities except Seville and Spain was divided into two areas facing.

banner with the famous slogan It will not in the C / Toledo (obtained from sp3.fotolog.com)

Radicalism scored in the dispute, as it focused on the war as a struggle between fascism and communism. The National Bank was supported by the army, the traditionalists (Carlist), the Falange fascist party and the support of the Catholic Church. The Republican side was overwhelmed by the activities of trade unions (CNT and UGT) and leftist parties (PCE, POUM). the Crusade was against the Revolution.



Posters calling phalanx warfare (rayosycentellas obtained. net) and Republican militias (imag.lecturalia.com)


International intervention strengthened the confrontation between fascism and communism, as General Franco was a major military aid and equipment Fascist Italy Mussolini (CTV) and the Hitler's Germany (Legion Condor), while the Republican administration got support from only Soviet Union of Stalin and the Communist volunteers of the International Brigades.

Parade in honor of Nazi troops of the Legion Condor (obtained from concejoabierto.file.wordpress.com)


The war was initially developed with the aim of the rebels to win Madrid, where there were the battles of Jarama, Guadalajara, Brunete. But it was impossible to get the war more forcefully moved to other fronts: the north of Spain fell to Franco in 1937 and early 1938 after the Battle of Teruel the National isolated Catalonia. The Republicans tried to fight back in the summer of 1938 at the Ebro, where the battle occurred bloody war, but that was the beginning of the end, because after it, in the winter of 1938/1939 was conquered Catalonia and the Republican defeat was imminent, and occurred on April 1, 1939.



Map of the evolution of the Civil War 1936-1939 (obtained of usuarios.multimanía.es)

called the first days of the National Uprising were very bloody because both sides pursued a terrible repression against its potential enemies. Were murdered without trial and leaving the bodies (trade unionists, religious, political, prominent persons from each side ...) in the gutters of roads and cemeteries, but even worse is that this situation was extended to areas that changed hands during the war . One of the most popular paseillo of this repression was the shooting of Federico García Lorca in Granada at the hands of the Falange.
Trailer for the film Death in Granada that shows the end of Federico García Lorca

in the war also developed other terrible tragedies such as starvation that was passed in the cities, where bugs lentils with potatoes and citrus was a delicacy. Also horrible were the indiscriminate bombings on the Republican zone, the cities of Madrid or Barcelona, \u200b\u200bbut which highlighted the destruction of Guernica.

The Picasso Guernica, a symbol of civilian suffering, portrays the bombing of the city (1937) (obtained from chekinaddicts.files.wordpress.com)


Intellectuals in the Civil War were identified mainly with the republic, among them was Miguel Hernández that enlisted in the 5th Regiment where he became culture commissar actively working to raise morale of the soldiers, reciting and writing, of this period are Wind Village (1937), Pastor of death (1938) and as more resigned in defeat lurks Man (1939).

Photo of Miguel Hernández addressing soldiers and the International Brigades (obtained from elpais.com) and 5 th Regiment Poster communist (obtained from 2.bp.blogspot.com)


The consequence of the involvement of many, some intellectuals in defense of the republic was the harsh repression suffered by the Francoist side after the war, shot or imprisoned in appalling conditions to a large number of people. To avoid the majority opted for exile (Antonio Machado, Luis Buñuel, Rafael Alberti ...), as well as political, military, doctors, teachers, etc. Miguel Hernández tried in vain to flee to Portugal, but was locked , sentenced first to death, then commuted to 30 years in prison, where he eventually died in 1942 .

Images Of A Brazilian Weave

The Second Republic (exposure Miguel Hernández)

La Puerta del Sol to the Republican flag hoisted (obtained from flickr.com )

La Puerta del Sol was a true madness, people crowded Republican waving flags, climbed to streetlights, cars and trams, to see how Manuel Azana, among other leaders, proclaimed the Republic from the balcony of governance, had broken a joy full of hope for a better future but that would end in tragedy.

Republic II provisional government 1931 (Alcalá Zamora in the center, left Azana Lerroux, Prieto, Largo Caballero ...) (Obtained from blog.canalsur.es)

was the April 14, 1931 after the municipal elections as a referendum raised between monarchists and Republican parties, won by the Republicans in all capitals, not in the villages, King Alfonso XIII was left without support and chose exile, was introduced then Republic: II was born Republic in Spain.

the new republic symbols and articles of the constitution of 1931 (obtained from img.photobucket.com)

The Constitution of 1931 placed Spain among the most advanced democracies, and women could vote for the first time in the 1933 elections, but also produced dramatic changes such as limiting social influence of the Catholic Church.

Distribution of seats among parties in the Constituent Assembly (obtained from ih5.ggpht.com)

The situation was very complicated, Republic inherited a historic social and economic backwardness, where the majority of the population engaged in primary sector, many illiterate, with a large number of laborers living in poverty and a concentrated industry in Catalonia, Madrid and the Basque Country but underdeveloped and suffer the influence of the great crash of 1929.

Poverty and launched many farmers need to occupy land of aristocrats prompted by the CNT, were harshly repressed by the government of Azana (obtained d e4 . bp.blogspot.com)

The government of the Republic tried to reduce these problems, relying on important reforms such as land reform, to give land to the laborers and increase production agrarian military reform that would ensure democracy in Spain or the introduction of autonomous status to curb the problem of nationalism.

Children learning to read in a school Republican (obtained from www.enciezadigital.com)

In the years of the republic there was also a cultural momentum, starting with a huge education effort, where intellectuals took the lead, such as Federico García Lorca formed a traveling theater group, La Barraca to bring culture to the people until then forgotten. It is during these years that Miguel Hernández travels to Madrid twice for a career as a writer and participates in the Educational Missions , promoting education and culture.

university theater company La Barraca, directed by Lorca (obtained from blip.tv)

However, reforms were limited or frustrated by problems of political division between unions (CNT and UGT), Republican Party (AR, PRP, ORGA), the PSOE led by Indalecio Prieto and Largo Caballero, the Radical party of Alexander Lerroux (discredited by scandals corruption) and the appearance of the right since 1933 around a new party, CEDA (English Confederation of Autonomous Rights), directed by J.M ª Gil Robles, who wanted a more conservative policy.

Poster Photography Revolution of 1934 with Franco Azaña charge of suppressing the revolution in Asturias (obtained from 1.bp.blogspot.com)

Due to the cessation of the reforms and progress on the right in October 1934 broke out of a socialist revolution led by the UGT , which only succeeded in the basin Asturias mining and industrial, but was strongly repressed by the army, while The attempt failed in Catalonia independence ERC led by Lluis Companys. Since announcing the armed confrontation between the English.

Signs of the popular front for the elections of February 1936 (obtained from 1 . pb.blogspot.com)

In elections 1936 the English society was divided into two positions, left prorrepublicana (National Front) and anti-Republican right (CEDA, National Bloc and Falange). Soon the fighting moved from political debates to the streets. The murder of Lieutenant Castillo (linked on the left) and Deputy José Calvo Sotelo (linked at right) were a foretaste of what erupted in the summer: the attempted coup and the ensuing English Civil War.

Signs on both sides of the English Civil War (obtained from www.elhistoriador.es)

Monday, May 3, 2010

Ps3 Menu To Big For My Tv

The Cinema of the 80s


Poster Ridley Scott (image obtained from www.tustrucos.com)

The Eighties is a time of great films. The Empire Strikes Back, Blue Velvet, Amadeus, Blade Runner . Many films, like the latter, were crushed by critics the time of its release and yet, years later are celebrated as contemporary classics.


Start era Spielberg, giving the best of himself to Indiana Jones and ET . Is the new King Midas: everything he touches turns to gold. The public seems to return to the halls in search of entertainment.


Poster ET (Obtained from blogs.lavozde galicia.es)

Poster Back to the Future (obtained from megaviload . com)


appear Reimi Sam, and Tim Burton born and independent film Jim Jarmush ( Strangers in paradise , 1984) and Coen brothers ( Blood Simple , 1984). Movies that will become commercially since Sundance, festival sponsored by Robert Redford in the state of Utah that was intended to cover the territory novice directors and scouts.


In Spain, the years of Almodóvar (from Pepi, Lucy, boom ... to What Have I Done to Deserve This?, Women the verge of a nervous breakdown and Átame ). Rafael Azcona write the script for The Living Forest , with Alfredo Landa. It is exceeding the period of unveiling.

Girls Almodovar Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (obtained from filmin.es)


José Luis Rope gives a personal, original and fun with Dawn is no little , opening its own genre: the "rural surrealism."

Movie Poster (Picture obtained from leelibros.com)


Moreover , Hive and The Holy Innocents of Camus (based book of CJ Cela and Miguel Delibes) , The trip to nowhere and Bicycles are for summer of Fernando Fernan Gomez and The heifer of Berlanga recovered memory the Spain of War Civil and Franco.


also are Fernando Trueba , Bigas Luna , José Luis Borau and Gonzalo Suárez. Despite all these names and others, turned to talk of crisis: we could not compete with the all-powerful Hollywood film industry and the revival of the late seventies seemed a mirage. Were U.S. films, and little English cinema. Yet José Luis Garci won an Oscar with Restart (1982).

JL Garci with his Oscar, along with the protagonists of the film (obtained from muchocine.net)