Ressenyes individuals: Romeu i Figueras, Josep: Corpus d’antiga poesia popular, Barcelona, Editorial Barcino, 2000 («Els Nostres Clàssics», B-18)

Ressenya del llibre de Josep Romeu i Figueras, 'Corpus d'antiga poesia popular', editat per Barcino, l'any 2000. Josep Romeu edita amb tota cura i comenta una per una 437 composicions poètiques 'de base popular', procedents de tots els Països Catalans, que van des de l’últim terç del segle XII fins al final del segle XVI

El cinema i la constitució d'un públic popular a Barcelona. El cas del Paral·lel

Between 1895 and 1910 Barcelona saw a whole range of social, political and cultural changes due to the increasingly important emergence of the working masses. At the same time, the cinema arrived in Catalonia, becoming very quickly one of the favorite entertainments of the urban laboring population which was about creating a new culture opposed to the modernist and nineteenth-century elite .This is, broadly speaking, the context that serves as a starting point for a study of the role of cinema in shaping a mass audience in Barcelona, an analysis centered on new urban spaces intended for the leisure of the lower classes emerged with the birth of modern Barcelona, especially the “Paral•lel” avenue, whose opening in 1894 made even more apparent the great social tensions and existing inequalities in Barcelona’s society at the end of the century.