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Leading Women in Spanish Cinema and Television, 1970-1980

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Leading Women in Spanish Cinema and Television, 1970-1980

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This 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.

The innovations of 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 75 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. 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: this is where the work of women can be found.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Part I: Making Invisible, or, Why the Old Methodologies Don't Work
1. Case Study One: Auteurism
2. Case Study Two: The Transnational Approach
3. Case Study Three: Beyond the Mainstream to Independents, Who Counts?
Part II: Making Visible: Leading Women in Below-the-Line Professions (and Some Above-the-Line yet Still Invisible Ones)
4. Above-the-Line Roles
5. Below-the-Line Roles
Part III: What to do with Visibility: Recovering and Revising Key Texts of the Transition
6. TV Series Novela (literary adaptations)
7. Esa Mujer (That Woman)
8. El espiritu de la colmena (Spirit of the Beehive)
9. Cria cuervos (Raise Ravens)
10. Vamanos Barbara (Let's Go, Barbara)
11. Operacion Ogro (Ogro)
12. Gary Cooper que estas en los cielos (Gary Cooper, Who Art in Heaven)
13. El crimen de Cuenca (The Cuenca Crime)
14. Pepi, Luci, Bom, y otras chicas del monton (Pepi, Luci, Bom, and Other Girls on the Heap)
15. Funcion de noche (Night Function)
Conclusion: What to do with Visibility: Leadership
Bibliography
Index

Product details

Bloomsbury Academic Test
Published Nov 13 2025
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Extent 240
ISBN 9781501384950
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Illustrations 30 bw illus
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

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Sally Faulkner

Sally Faulkner is Professor of Spanish at the Univ…

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Núria Triana-Toribio

Nuria Triana Toribio is Professor of Hispanic Stud…

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