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The Shack (Blasco Ibáñez Novel)
''The Shack'' or ''The Hut'' (Spanish: ''La barraca'') is an 1898 novel by the Spanish writer Vicente Blasco Ibáñez. Its English translation sold over a million copies.Altisent p.259 It was adapted into a Mexican film '' The Shack'' in 1945 and a Televisión Española (acronym TVE, branded tve, "Spanish Television") is Spain's national state-owned public television broadcaster and the oldest regular television service in the country. It was also the first regular television service in Equatorial Guinea. T ... television series '' La barraca'' in 1979. References Bibliography * Martha Eulalia Altisent. ''A Companion to the Twentieth-century Spanish Novel''. Boydell & Brewer Ltd, 2008. 1898 novels 19th-century Spanish novels Spanish novels adapted into films Spanish novels adapted into television shows Novels by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez {{1890s-novel-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (, 29 January 1867 – 28 January 1928) was a journalist, politician, and a bestselling Spanish novelist in various genres whose most widespread and lasting fame in the English-speaking world is from Hollywood films that were adapted from his works. Biography He was born in Valencia. At university, he studied law and graduated in 1888 but never went into practice since he was more interested in politics, journalism, and literature. He was a particular fan of Miguel de Cervantes. In politics, he was a militant Republican partisan in his youth, and he founded the newspaper ''El Pueblo'' (translated as ''The People'') in his hometown, in which he developed a Republican populist political movement known as '. The newspaper aroused so much controversy that it was taken to court many times. In 1896, he was arrested and sentenced to a few months in prison. He made many enemies. He was shot, and almost killed, in one dispute; the bullet was caught in the clasp o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Shack (1945 Film)
''The Shack'' or ''The Hut'' (Spanish: ''La barraca'') is a 1945 Mexican drama film directed by Roberto Gavaldón and starring Domingo Soler, Anita Blanch and Amparo Morillo.Paranaguá p.193 It is based on the 1898 novel of the same title by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Art director is a title for a variety of similar job functions in theater, advertising, marketing, publishing, fashion, live-action and animated film and television, the Internet, and video games. It is the charge of a sole art director to super ... Francisco Marco Chillet and Vicente Petit. Cast References Bibliography * Paulo Antonio Paranaguá. ''Mexican Cinema''. British Film Institute, 1995. External links * 1945 films 1945 drama films Best Picture Ariel Award winners Mexican drama films 1940s Spanish-language films Films based on works by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez Films directed by Roberto Gavaldón Mexican black-and-white films 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Televisión Española
(acronym TVE, branded tve, "Spanish Television") is Spain's national state-owned public television broadcaster and the oldest regular television service in the country. It was also the first regular television service in Equatorial Guinea. TVE began as a standalone company dependent on the Ministry of Information and Tourism. After undergoing several restructurings and reorganizations, since 1 January 2007 it is the television division –while (RNE) is the radio division– of (RTVE), the public corporation which has the overall responsibility for the national broadcasting public services under a parliament-appointed president who, in addition to being answerable to a board of directors, reports to an all-party committee of the national parliament, as provided for in the Public Radio and Television Law of 2006. TVE launched its first channel on 28 October 1956 as the first regular television service in Spain. It was the only one for a decade, until 15 November 1966, wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Barraca (TV Series)
' () is a Spanish prime-time television series based on the 1898 novel of the same name by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez. Produced by Aldebarán Films for Televisión Española (TVE), it was directed by León Klimovsky, with screenplay by Manuel Mur Oti. Its nine episodes adapting the novel were broadcast on La Primera of Televisión Española in 1979. Plot Uncle Barret's family has to leave the shack, unable to pay the debts owed to the owner, Don Salvador. Uncle Barret, full of anger, kills him and is imprisoned. The shack is occupied by Batiste's family, who are not well received by the locals. From the initial rejection it turns to violence, which causes a tragic outcome. Production After the success of its 1978 television series ''Cañas y barro'', Vicente Blasco Ibáñez's first novel adapted to television, Televisión Española (TVE) commissioned the same production company, Aldebarán Films, to adapt ''La barraca'', another novel by Blasco Ibáñez. The production was done wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1898 Novels
Events January * January 1 – New York City annexes land from surrounding counties, creating the City of Greater New York as the world's second largest. The city is geographically divided into five boroughs: Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, The Bronx and Staten Island. * January 13 – Novelist Émile Zola's open letter to the President of the French Republic on the Dreyfus affair, , is published on the front page of the Paris daily newspaper , accusing the government of wrongfully imprisoning Alfred Dreyfus and of antisemitism. February * February 12 – The automobile belonging to Henry Lindfield of Brighton rolls out of control down a hill in Purley, London, England, and hits a tree; thus he becomes the world's first fatality from an automobile accident on a public highway. * February 15 – Spanish–American War: The explodes and sinks in Havana Harbor, Cuba, for reasons never fully established, killing 266 men. The event precipitates the United States ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
