Lineamenti di storia del cinema muto in Colombia

"Outlining the History of Silent Cinema in Colombia" stems from a particular interest aimed at determining to what extent Colombians participated in the development of their national cinema between 1897 and 1926. In order to achieve this goal, this work aims to create a critical review of the lineament of the history of Colombian silent cinema. Furthermore, and considering the strong participation of Italian entrepreneurs and filmmakers in Colombian silent cinema between 1909 and 1926, particular attention is paid to their contribution, to which chapter 4 is fully devoted as well as some sections of chapters 2, 3, 5 and 7. It is important to point out that analyzing the contribution of local filmmakers denies much of the existing bibliography on silent cinema since no Colombian or foreign text has ever established their contribution to local or international cinema. In fact, in this research, the notions of polycentrism, polymorphism, and cinematographic versatility are studied in-depth, with the aim of creating a documented and updated study of Colombian silent cinema. It is aimed to be able to demonstrate that the contribution of the latter to Colombian and Latin American silent cinema - and in part to the Italian one - was substantial and far-reaching, both in terms of quantity and content. Finally, this research aims not only to define the contribution of Colombian filmmakers to the development of their national cinema but also, and above all, to identify the origin of some of the elements that characterize Colombian cinema.