Historiografía del cine colombiano (1960-1980). Revisión crítica de historia del cine colombiano de Hernando Martínez Pardo

Abstract

Between 1960 and 1970, the first texts appear on the history of cinema in Colombia giving for the first time a logical and chronological order to an accumulation of films produced in the country. With this purpose, it was necessary to formulate problems from the perspective of history, as well as the methodology of approaching the subject, both designed specifically for the analysis of their object of study, Colombian Cinema. The most important work of the period would be Hernando Martinez Pardo's History of Colombian Cinema (Historia del cine colombiano, 1978), the only book in Colombia that has aimed at narrating the history of our cinematography from the point of view of the feature film. In his attempt to lay the foundations of a "national cinema", he assembled a chronology upon the industrial paradigm, along with aesthetically canons from Europe and North America. In time, the book became obligatory reference to the great number of researchers on the subject, and its classifications and chronologies built on the notion of "progress" have been passed from generation to generation, without much questioning. The main objective of this research is to explore the theoretical problems of the historiographic cinematography and their relation to the texts produced in the country in the period mentioned above, along with a revision from the critical perspective of Martinez Pardo's book.