[Commlist] New Book: Women in Iberian Filmic Culture

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Women in Iberian Cinema

Intellect is pleased to announce that /*Women in Iberian Filmic Culture 
<https://www.intellectbooks.com/women-in-iberian-filmic-cultures>*/, 
edited by Elena Cordero-Hoyo and Begoña Soto-Vázquez, is now available 
in ebook, paperback and hardback.

Though cinema arrived in Spain and Portugal at the end of the nineteenth 
century, national and industrial problems as well as the dictatorships 
of Salazar and Caetano (in Portugal) and Franco (in Spain) meant Iberian 
cinemas were isolated from European cultural trends. Strict censorship 
in both countries limited the themes and artistic practices adopted, 
while a specific cinematographic language, in many cases full of 
metaphors and symbolism, sought alternatives to the imposed official 
discourse and preconceived definitions of supposed national identities. 
By contrast, the arrival of democracy from the 1970s onwards widened not 
just the panorama of film production and criticism, but also opened the 
film industry to women’s participation in areas historically assigned to 
men.

Focusing on Portuguese and Spanish cinema, this collection brings 
together research about women and their status in relation to Iberian 
filmic culture. The volume contributes to ongoing debates about the 
position of women in the cinemas of Portugal and Spain from 
interdisciplinary and feminist perspectives as well as new accounts of 
film history. It also aims to promote comparisons between Iberian 
cinemas and visual culture, a topic that is almost unexplored in 
academia, despite the similar histories of the two countries, 
particularly throughout the twentieth century.
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*_Table of Contents
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*Introduction:* Women in Iberian cinemas, a singular tour in Spain and 
Portugal – /Elena Cordero-Hoyo and Begoña Soto-Vázquez/

*Part 1: The presence of women in Iberian cinemas*
- Fiction as a Place of Power: The Presence of Female Directors 
Throughout the History of Portuguese Cinema – /Ana Catarina Pereira/

- The Invisible Women of Spanish Cinema – /Annette Scholz/

- Três dias sem Deus by Bárbara Virgínia, a Different Way of 
Representation – /Ricardo Vieira Lisboa/
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/*Part 2: Killing the muse: Women as creator*
- Gender Violence and Historical Memory in Margarida Cardoso and Isabel 
Coixet – /Estela Vieira/

- ‘People Don’t Understand [the] World’: The Limits of Transnational 
Authorship in the Cinema of Isabel Coixet – /Katarzyna Paszkiewicz/

- Murmuring Colonial Ghosts in Margarida Cardoso’s Filmography – 
/Adriana Martins/

*Part 3: Beyond the author: Recognizing other cinematographic professions*
- Weaving a Cinematographic Culture and Writing about Film or How to 
Reconstruct the Subject of Women in Spanish Silent Cinema – /Begoña 
Soto-Vázquez/

- A Woman Censor during the Portuguese Dictatorship (1968–74) – /Ana 
Bela Morais/

- Costume Designers in Portugal: A Trade Between Art and Technique 
Relegated to the Status of ‘a Woman’s Thing’ – /Caterina Cucinotta/
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*Part 4: Historical memory and the gendered archive*
- Paradigms – Women Filmmakers in 1970s Revolutionary Portugal – 
Delgado, Nordlund, Cordeiro and Serra – /Érica Faleiro Rodrigues/

- The Mother Awaits: Woman and Landscape in Galician Non-Fiction Cinema 
– /Mª Soliña Barreiro González/

- Exploring the Portuguese Memory through Appropriation Film: A toca do 
lobo (Mourão, 2015) – /Elena Cordero-Hoyo/

*Notes on contributors**
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Please visit our website for more information:
https://www.intellectbooks.com/women-in-iberian-filmic-cultures

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