"El guion cinematografico como pre-texto literario. La obra de Rafael Azcona" studies the artistic evolution of one of Spain's most distinguished and prolific film scriptwriters, Rafael Azcona, who has had a decisive role in shaping Spanish cinema since the 1950s. In spite of the fact that film professionals recognize his fundamental contributions to filmmaking, relatively little attention has been paid to his written. Moreover, criticism has virtually ignored the substantial body of fiction that he has produced. The goal of my thesis is to see how an examination of Azcona's role as fiction writer broadly construed--encompassing his work as a writer of fiction and his work as a screenwriter--positions him as one of contemporary Spain's most important cultural critics. This reading allows for the reconsideration of Azcona as a persistent champion of civil society against the pressures of dictatorship and the possible abuse of capital, one whose use of acerbic humor places him in the tradition of Goya and Valle Inclan and aligns his narrative with the tradition reestablished by Luis Martin-Santos in the early 1960s. My point of departure is the consideration of Azcona's opus informed by Bordwell's seminal work on the relationship between fiction writing and film. My grounding in cultural theory and contemporary Spanish studies allows me to contextualize Azcona's work and make the case for his consideration as a foundational figure in Spanish cultural production during and after Franco's dictatorship.

A partir de la experiencia del autor como guionista en la serie “Puertas al más allá”, se hace un análisis del trabajo profesional del guion en una serie de televisión producida para el exterior.

American composer David Guion (1892-1981) created and expressed in much of his music a unique and unmistakably American voice. Though he is remembered today mostly for piano pieces, especially Turkey in the Straw and Arkansas Traveler, he was famous for championing cowboy songs, African-American spirituals and folk songs as the truly authentic representations of the American experience. He also wrote many original works, including a substantial number of songs in Black dialect. In 1930 Guion starred in a cowboy show at the Roxy Theatre in New York, drawing upon his western-themed music. The next year he had a weekly radio show, broadcast around the country and featuring his music exclusively, with the title Hearing America with Guion. He played a substantial role in transforming Home on the Range into the best-known of all cowboy songs. His magnum opus, the ballet Shingandi, was highly regarded but has yet to be recorded. This dissertation examines those genres among Guion’s compositions that reveal his vision for a musical Americana. Much of his music is based on songs that circulated first in oral tradition before he adapted them for the concert stage. This dissertation surveys the breadth of the oral tradition of these songs, identifies his direct sources, and examines his treatment of melody, rhythm and harmony as he infused his music with such characteristic national flavor that his audiences were, in effect, “Hearing America.” A complete list of Guion compositions is attempted, and to the extent possible, probable dates of composition are established from recital programs and publication agreements. The scripts of his radio shows are reconstructed from papers in his archives and presented here. / text