[Commlist] Atalante - CFP #32 - Female archetypes and the Star System in the history of Spanish cinema

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We are pleased to announce the call for papers of issue 32 of 
/L’Atalante. Revista de Estudios Cinematográficos/ which, under the 
title of “*Female archetypes and the Star System in the history of 
Spanish cinema*”, is open to contributions. Executive Issue Editors: 
Xavier Pèrez and Núria Bou (Universitat Pompeu Fabra).

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The period open for article proposals for the “Notebook” section goes 
from November 1st to December 10th 2020. The issue will be published in 
July 2021 and there are no article processing costs charged to authors.

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*FEMALE ARCHETYPES AND THE STAR SYSTEM IN THE HISTORY OF SPANISH CINEMA *

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Acceptance of articles for the “Notebook” section: * November 1st to 
December 10th 2020*

Archetypes in cinema, as Edgar Morin (1972) noted, are linked to the 
faces of the stars who, from the earliest days, portrayed prototypical 
characters that were repeated with the implicit strategy of creating 
loyalty processes with audiences. In the case of actresses, the 
different female figurations (from the innocent virgin to the femme 
fatale) evolved over the years in such a way that neither the /bad 
girls/ proved to be so evil nor the /good girls/ so angelic. During the 
first half of the 20^th  century (and despite the initial dominance of 
the powerful and influential film industries of France, Italy and 
Germany) it was the Hollywood star system that became the primary focus 
in terms of the archetypical production of female characters related 
with stardom. Later on, Molly Haskel (1973) and Marjorie Rossen (1973) 
launched a critical feminist reading of the archetypes that were 
conjured up by actresses in Hollywood’s Golden Age. Since then, in fact, 
stars and their various typologies have been examined from various 
viewpoints, including feminism, psychoanalysis (Gledhill, 1991), the 
spheres addressed by gender studies (Studlar, 1996) and the ideas of 
reception theory (Hansen, 1986; Stacey, 1994; Mayne, 1993). The idea 
that in contemporary cinema, stars need to exhibit different identities, 
embodying an “elastic self” (King: 2003), as if they needed to destroy 
(or play at destroying) some of the fixed principles of the archetypal 
notion that was invented by classic cinema all enables us to observe the 
history of stardom in cinema as a process of figurative mutations that 
is always related to the evolution of ideologies.
This succinct methodological arc that links the stars of cinema with 
specific archetypes is not so easy to chart if we look at studies on 
Spanish cinema. A monographic work from the early 1990s co-ordinated by 
Vicente Sánchez Biosca and Vicente Benet (1994) for the magazine 
/Archivos de la Filmoteca/ was, perhaps, the first comprehensive 
academic attempt to carry out an academic reflection, in Spain, on the 
figure of the film star, though neither the subject of archetypes nor 
the specific context of Spanish cinema were the central themes of this 
monographic piece. Thus a rich seam of research can be found at the 
crossover point where the repeated typologies constituting the fictions 
of Spanish film meet the stars that portrayed them, and which can help 
to broaden our knowledge of this particular film industry. In this 
respect, the current proliferation of works relating to feminist film 
theory that aim to carry out a critical review of the role women have 
held in the shaping of cinematographic imaginaries encourages us place 
our focus of study on female archetypes. Admittedly, in this respect, 
recent research (based on gender studies) has proposed the idea of 
cataloguing the way women have been portrayed in Spanish cinema 
(Labanyi,  2000; Feenstra , 2011 and Rincón Díez, 2014), though the 
concept of the star has not played a particularly important role in 
these studies.
Most academics agree that the Spanish film industry was influenced by 
the model of Hollywood stardom from its earliest days (though in the 
first few decades there were no large production companies in Spain 
capable of creating a star system like the one in the USA) and also that 
production companies such as Cifesa and Suevia attempted to market 
themselves in a similar manner (Benet: 2017). Marta García Carrión 
(2017) makes the extremely telling point that the popularity some 
actresses (such as Raquel Meller) enjoyed in the 1920s revealed a 
culture of stardom among Spanish cinema audiences that came to permeate 
the magazines and newspapers of that time. Raquel Meller provided 
Spaniards with the archetype of the modern woman, and portrayed 
characters that were rich in psychological nuance. Likewise (and now 
within a more established film industry), in the time of Franco, 
actresses such as Conchita Montenegro, Amparo Rivelles and Sara Montiel 
emerged who embodied various female archetypes during the course of 
their national and international careers, and who succeeded in 
portraying characters that transgressed (more or less explicitly) 
against the archetype of the passive, domestic, servile woman that was 
promoted by the Fascist regime. Following the death of the dictator, 
female archetypes took another reinvigorating turn as filmmakers such as 
Almodóvar, Trueba, and Bigas Luna explored the affirmations of the world 
of women though a new crop of actresses, some of whom (including Carmen 
Maura and Penélope Cruz, representatives of two different generations) 
gained considerable international recognition. In a more modern context, 
the emergence of a generation of female directors who are aiming to 
present, using their own voices, a more subtle view of the female 
figurations of the earlier cinema has given rise to a new form of 
/actress politics /that upholds, either consciously or unconsciously, 
the paradigms of the /elastic self/ championed by Barry King.
In this issue of /L’Atalante/ we aim to critically reorganise the 
materials that have appeared in the academic sphere regarding Spanish 
female stars and the repeated archetypes to which they have devoted 
their careers, and to subject this brief tradition to new, unprecedented 
research.
Priority will be given to the following fields:

 1. The critical history of the methodologies used for analysing Spanish
    actresses
 2. Theoretical reflections on /Star Studies/ as applied to the Spanish
    film industry
 3. The connection between the female archetypes of Spanish cinema and
    those of other film industries that might have inspired the former
    throughout the various periods (Hollywood, Italian neorealism,
    /nouvelle vague/, etc.)
 4. Female archetypes as identities that represent national values
 5. Feminist readings of female archetypes
 6. Actresses as the torchbearers of new models of femaleness for women
    audiences
 7. Reflections on the eroticism of Spanish actresses
 8. New models of femaleness in the 21^st  century
 9. The link between film genres and female archetypes
10. The iconographic tradition and female archetypes
11. Comparisons between female cinema models through the various periods
    of the history of Spanish cinema
12. The ways in which Spanish women stars have been portrayed in
    magazines and newspapers

We are looking for texts that focus on innovative research subjects 
using rigorous, clearly-presented methodology. Priority will be given to 
texts that make reference to the tradition of /Star Studies/, /Gender 
Studies/ and /Feminist Film Theory/, even though (and providing the 
socio-historical context is always included) works will be accepted that 
are based on other methodologies (symbolic hermeneutics, cultural 
studies, philological approaches, etc). Likewise, positive consideration 
will also be given to texts that do not merely describe, itemise and 
summarise specific details of the plots, but also rigorously apply a 
specific analytical methodology and, in turn, yield tangible, innovative 
results.


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