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Leading Women in Spanish Cinema and Television in the Long 1970s

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Leading Women in Spanish Cinema and Television in the Long 1970s

  • Open Access
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This open access book offers a feminist cultural history of Spain of the 1970s, exploring the work of women in the audio-visual industries who joined the workforce in significant numbers over this decade of Transition from the Franco dictatorship, to a democracy that enshrined gender equality in its constitution of 1978.

Leading Women in Spanish Cinema and Television, 1970-1980 seeks the work of women in new places and analyses it in new ways. Rejecting the director-auteur approach, which has endured for over seventy-five years in both Film and Television Studies - despite the fact that it tends to occlude the work of women - the authors look instead at below-the-line roles in cinema, and at television. In particular, they investigate editing, forgotten or overlooked areas of television broadcasting, such as children's programming, and film activism in the period, such as in the co-operative Drac Màgic: in these places the work of women can be found.
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by The Arts and Humanities Research Council.

Table of Contents

List of Ilustrations
Acknowledgements
Note on Text

Introduction: Now You See Her …
1. Editing in Female Creativity
2. Television for Democracy: Carmen Sarmiento, Rosa Maria Calaf and Paloma Chamorro
3. Western Literary Classics for a New Western Democracy: Literary Adaptations in Televisión Española
4. Women in Children's Programming
5. Drac Màgic and Activism
Conclusion: On Looking for Something, and Finding Something Else

Appendix
Index

Product details

Bloomsbury Academic Test
Published 11 Jun 2026
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 272
ISBN 9781501384967
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Illustrations 31 bw illus
Dimensions 229 x 152 mm
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Author

Sally Faulkner

Sally Faulkner is Professor of Spanish at the Univ…

Author

Núria Triana-Toribio

Nuria Triana Toribio is Professor of Hispanic Stud…

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