Valentino Gianuzzi

Bio

Valentino Gianuzzi is lecturer in Latin American Cultural Studies at the University of Manchester. He has published on the work of César Vallejo and is currently working on a cultural history of the Andean avant-gardes.

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If later testimonies are to be believed, around 1927 Peruvian poet Carlos Oquendo de Amat (1905-1936) published in Lima, under the title Celuloide ( Celluloid), a magazine devoted to film news and reviews. Literary historians, however, have surmised that the magazine must have only been a project which never came to fruition, as no copy of the publication, nor contemporary evidence of its existence, has to this day been found. [1] The legend of this magazine has undoubtedly become enrooted in...