Resumen de El explicador español, a través de su reflejo cultural
This article presents an in-depth discussion of the cinema lecturer in Spain, focusing on a number of more or less explicit cultural references to this figure, chiefly in popular stage plays and narrative works of the time. The presence of cinema narrators in these works is then related to data drawn from other sources, and an ensuing analysis leads to a number of conclusions as to how the personality of the Spanish cinema narrator may be defined: part actor, part cinema employee, his oral presentations drawing on the dominant traditions of contemporary stand-up comedians. At the same time, the presence of oral explanations is shown to be implicit in the abstract concept of cinema as it was understood in Spain in the 1910s.
