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   documentary   highlights   Blasco’s  important   propagandistic   contributions   to  

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  

   

 

 

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  

 

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