in:
Feminist media studies
Basingstoke [u.a.]:
2016
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1057-1077 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Ariadne | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Wheeler, Duncan info |
| In: | Feminist media studies |
| Jahr: | 2016 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| Spain did not experience first- or second-wave feminism simultaneously with its European neighbours due primarily, albeit not exclusively, to the Franco dictatorship (1939–1975). Following the transition to democracy, the twenty-first century media-scape often appears to be firmly committed to the discourse of post-feminism, an adscription that might be construed as a paradigmatic example of cultural and social normalisation. There is, nevertheless, a paradox in undergoing a transition from what we might term pre- to post-feminism; is it possible to disavow and supersede a movement that never genuinely took root? This essay critically interrogates the assumption that Spanish cultural production is committed to post-feminism, focussing on the eight films directed by Spanish women that received general domestic distribution in a twelve-month period commencing in September 2007. I draw upon personal interviews with women filmmakers alongside a general discussion of the films themselves in an attempt to contextualise the on- and off-screen gender(ed) politics of women in front of and behind the camera within both wider socio-broader practices in Spain, and the transnational idiom of (post-)feminism. My hypothesis is that the most compelling cinematic response to the machismo and misogyny of Spanish film and society is to be found in middle-brow melodrama, a genre all too often dismissed by Spanish critics. | |
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