María Luz Morales and the Cultural Journalism of the Thirties: Modernity, Cinema and Pedagogy Authors Glòria Santa-Maria Pilar Tur Keywords: María Luz Morales, journalism in the thirties, journalism in Barcelona, women journalists, Irene Polo Abstract A profile of the long and involved professional life of one of Spain's first female staff newsroom journalists and the first woman to head a Spanish newspaper: Maria Luz Morales (A Coruña, 1899-Barcelona, 1980). The article focuses, in particular, on her work throughout the 1930s,characterized by two main goals: enhancing the perception of cinema -still a young art at the time- and the development of "feminine" sections in the newspaper that strove to educate her female readers. Downloads PDF (Català) Published 2012-11-05 Issue No. 18 (2012): Desorden y transgresión en el mundo antiguo Section Miscellaneous License The Author retains ownership of the copyright in this article, unless the opposite is expressed, and all rights not expressly granted in this agreement, including the nonexclusive right to reproduce, distribute, perform, and display the article in print or electronic form, and grants, Lectora: revista de dones i textualitat the exclusive rights to print publication of the Article for a period beginning when this Agreement is executed and ending twelve (12) months after the first publicaton of the work in this Journal. After this time, the work will be available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works license, by which the article must be credited to the Author and the Journal be credited as first place of publication. Beginning twelve (12) months after the article´s first publication, the Author is free to enter in seperate, additional contractual agreements for the non-exclusive distribution of the work as published in this journal. The Author is encouraged to post the work online (eg in institutional or subject repositories, or on their website) after the exclusivity period of twelve (12) months has expired, as it can lead to productive exchanges as well as a greater citation of the published work (see The Effect of Open Access).