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His guidance and care has been so very important in my professional and personal development. I am grateful to Professor Andrés Zamora for taking an interest in me as an undergraduate and for the close bond of scholarship and friendship that has developed between us, ultimately culminating in this project. Having spent my entire academic career heretofore at Vanderbilt University, I am greatly indebted to so many of the wonderful people that work in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. I am appreciative of the great efforts of the many people with whom I have had the pleasure of working on this dissertation and related projects. Friedman and Mona Frederick for their leadership at the Penn Warren Center and for making it such a vibrant and dynamic place for scholarly inquiry and investigation. I also would like to thank Professor Edward H.

Johnson for his generosity in endowing the Mary and Joe Harper Fellowship at the Penn Warren Center, a fellowship I was proud to hold during the 2010–2011 academic year. In particular I would like to thank James B.

I owe a great measure of gratitude to the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities, whose Graduate Student Fellowship program supported the completion of this dissertation. Grants from the Northeast Modern Language Association and the Vanderbilt Graduate School facilitated research trips to the Fundación Juan March and the Filmoteca Española in 20, trips that provided invaluable richness and depth to this project. Friedman Professor Earl Fitz Professor Michael BessĬopyright © 2011 by Jason Thomas Parker All righs reservedįor Chelsea, my inspiration and In loving memory of Pop Pop and Aunt CarrieĪ project of this magnitude does not emanate from the hand of an individual, but from the efforts of a community. FROM PAGE TO STAGE: PRINT JOURNALISM, COMMERCIAL THEATER AND THE BIRTH OF MODERN SPECTATORSHIP IN MADRIDĭissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Vanderbilt University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY in Spanish May, 2011 Nashville, TennesseeĪpproved: Professor Andrés Zamora Professor Edward H.
