Francisco López Villarejo presents in Huelva "El espejo pintado: los géneros del cine."
Francisco López Villarejo presents his book "El Espejo Pintado: los géneros del cine" at the Jesús Hermida Communication Center on Thursday, March 2. This book is part of the Municipal Program for the Promotion of Books by Huelva Publishers, promoted by the Department of Culture of the City of Huelva.
With engaging and uninhibited language, sometimes ironic but always colloquial, the author takes the reader on a journey not only through the history of cinema but also through its most emblematic films, its most controversial directors, and its mythical and less-known protagonists.
Even some supporting characters who made cinema what, according to the author, it still is, despite the explosive and superficial evolutive development and the great unknown that modern virtual execution techniques are opening up about its future.
In this doubtful reality, within that context, the book moves with emotion and affection, with deep love for cinema: it recovers film genres, explains and comments on them, attempting to delve into them, qualifying currents and details, providing hundreds of film titles associated with trends and genres, identifying them, even outside their success, by their authorship and quality.
FRANCISCO LÓPEZ VILLAREJO holds a Ph.D. in Contemporary History from the University of Seville and is a member of the Academy of Cinematic Arts and Sciences of Spain and Andalusia. He served as the Director of the Ibero-American Film Festival of Huelva in 1994, as the Director-Manager in 1997 and 1998, and as the General Director from 1999 to 2002.
He has served as a jury member in almost all Latin American and U.S. film festivals. He is the founder of AFFCI (Association of Ibero-American Film Festivals) and worked as the Manager of Culture for the City of Huelva, the Director of the Congress Palace, the Director-General of the Gran Teatro from 1997 to 2003, and the Managing Director of the Public Company Sports Andalusian until mid-2004.
López Villarejo is a contributor to publications such as "Andalucía en la Historia," "Borrador," "Cineasta de República Dominicana," and others. He is a regular columnist and film critic for the newspapers Jaén, Huelva Información, and El Mundo Huelva-Noticias.
As an author, he has written several books on Spanish cinema, Contemporary History of Andalusia, and Social Movements of the 19th and 20th centuries. He is a founding member of the Society of Historical Studies on the Spanish Civil War and Francoism and a member of CEHME (Center for Historical Studies on Spanish Freemasonry).