professor rafael corbalán in the news

PROFESSOR RAFAEL CORBALÁN IN THE NEWS Professor Rafael Corbalán was recently interviewed for a documentary on Vicente Blasco Ibañez´novel, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse that will be shown on Spain’s National television network (TVE), and other international ones next year. the Allies during WWI. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypses criticized German aggression in WWI, and became a best seller in the United States in 1918. In 1921, Metro adapted the book to the screen, and Rudolph Valentino, interpreting Julio Desnoyers, became one of Hollywood’s first sex symbols, and the first Latin Lover of the silver screen. Professor Corbalán is the author of Vicente Blasco Ibañez y la novela cinematográfica, (Filmoteca de Valencia, 1998) one of the books used to prepare the documentary by Spanish film director Enrique Viciano and actress Rosana Pastor. http://www.lasprovincias.es/20130705/mas-­‐actualidad/cultura/blasco-­‐ibanez-­‐pelicula-­‐
201307051648.htm The documentary highlights Blasco’s important propagandistic contributions to His most recent publication is Españoles en la Historia de los Estados Unidos/Spaniards in US History. Vicente Blasco Ibañez, Joaquín Sorolla, Salvador Dalí and the perhaps less well –
known Juan Pujoi “Garbo”, David Farrgut and Bernardo de Gálvez, are just some of the great Spanish protagonists of this book about the ties that link Spain and the US from its founding days to the present. The author is Rafael Corbalán, a former journalist with a degree in journalism and public relations from the Universidad Autónoma of Barcelona, Spain and a PhD from the Graduate Center/CUNY and currently professor of Spanish at Borough of Manhattan Community College. The book was recently published by the National Hispanic Foundation for the Humanities . Sociedad Geográfica Española published this review: “The book deals with the diplomatic and socio-­‐
economic relations between Spain and the United States since the American Revolution until today. The book includes biographies of Spaniards who have contributed significantly to the history of the United States. Some topics included are the economic and military help provided by Hispanics to the American Revolution, and the exile of Spanish intellectuals to the United States after the Spanish Civil War, such as Tomás Navarro Tomás, Joan Corominas and Juan Ramón Jiménez.” WEBPAGE: http://www.sge.org/index.php?id=1923