Carnaval de Cádiz y cine, una relación recíproca

Résumé

The Carnival of Cadiz as an element of cultural diversity, from its very inception –during the middle of the XVIII century– has pretended to find sources of inspiration in every kind of communicative and artistic phenomena. For example, the emergence of the cinema in Spain ant the first screenings triggered a reciprocal relationship between cinematography and the Gaditan Carnival. On one hand, the cinema emphasized the themes, denomination and 'tipos' (costumes) of the carnival music groups. On the other hand, the Gaditan Carnival became stage and source of storylines for cinema directors both for fiction –mostly during the seventies– and documentary films from the early beginnings of the XXI century. This article sets up the advance of an ambitious research which intends to analyze the relation between the cinema and the Carnival of Cadiz: categorizing and labelling lyrics and costumes with clear allusion to the film industry on one side, and also studying the clear references of the cinema to the Carnival on the other