Audiovisual Fiction and World Heritage Sites in Medium-Sized Spanish Cities: The Alhambra of Granada and the Royal Alcazar of Seville (1905–2023)

Maria C. Puche-Ruiz () and Agustín Gámir
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Maria C. Puche-Ruiz: Department of Physical Geography and Regional Geographic Analysis, Universidad de Sevilla, 41009 Seville, Spain
Agustín Gámir: Department of Humanities: History, Geography and Art, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, 28911 Madrid, Spain

Sustainability, 2023, vol. 15, issue 9, 1-35

Abstract: This article analyses the production of audiovisual fiction as an instrument for disseminating the image of the Alhambra (Granada) and the Royal Alcazar (Seville) for tourism purposes. The methodology used was twofold: qualitative, carrying out an exhaustive bibliographic review, but also quantitative, using primary sources, through the identification of the films shot, visualization and collection of metadata of the scenes filmed. The information, previously structured, also allows a double analysis: temporal, considering five stages, and spatial, identifying and mapping more than twenty significant places within both sites. In its temporal dimension, the main conclusion refers to the different significance of cinema in the dissemination of the image of both sites: very prominent during Franco’s regime, with a profusion of foreign productions (Alhambra), while from the democratic period onwards it is the Royal Alcazar which offers a greater number of filming. In its spatial dimension, it has been verified that the 19th century formats in charge of disseminating images established a canon of places according to a certain degree of exoticism, which has been perpetuated by cinematography without significant changes.

Keywords: cinema; world heritage sites; Granada; Alhambra; Sevilla; Royal Alcazar; medium-sized cities; tourist image (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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