Gender and Spanish cinema
By: edited by Steven Marsh and Parvati Nair.
Contributors: Marsh, Steven, 1963-; Nair, Parvati.
Publisher: Berg
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
Subjects: Motion pictures -- Spain; Sex role in motion pictures
Description: This examination of twentieth-century Spanish film explores the portrayal of gender and its interaction with national identity, ethnicity, class, politics and history.
Notes: Filmography: P. 219-233.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Between the phobic object and the dissident subject: abjection and vampirism in Luis Buñuel's Viridiana / Julián Daniel Gutiérrez-Albilla; title: Costume, identity and spectator pleasure in historical films of the early Franco period / Jo Labanyi; title: Masculinity, monuments, and movement: gender and the city of Madrid in Pedro Almodóvar's Carne trémula (1997) / Steven Marsh; title: Madness, queenship, and womanhood in Orduña's Locura de amor (1948) and Aranda's Juana la loca (2001) / Celia Martín Pérez; title: New sexual politics in the cinema of the transition to democracy: de la Iglesia's El diputado (1978) / Alejandro Melero Salvador; title: Borderline men: gender, place, and power in representations of Moroccans in recent Spanish cinema / Parvati Nair; title: A psychoanalysis of La mujer más fea del mundo (1999) / Eva Parrondo Coppel; title: Gender and Spanish horror film / Tatjana Pavlovic; title: Heterosexuality in Segunda piel (Gerardo Vera, 2000) and Sobreviviré (Alfonso Albacete and David Menkes, 1999): strong women, or, the same old story? / Chris Perriam; title: !Victoria? a modern Magdalene / Rob Stone; title: Theatricality, melodrama, and stardom in El último cuplé / Kathleen M. Vernon; title: Radio Free Folklóricas: cultural, gender, and spatial hierarchies in Torbellino (1941) / Eva Woods.