Leading Women in Spanish Cinema and Television, 1970-1980
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
Leading Women in Spanish Cinema and Television, 1970-1980
By (Author) Professor Sally Faulkner
By (author) Nria Triana-Toribio
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Bloomsbury Academic USA
11th December 2025
United States
Classifications
Professional and Scholarly
Non Fiction
Television: styles and genres
Gender studies: women and girls
Physical Properties
Hardback
240
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
Description
This volume returns to this crucial time of the advent of democracy in Spain and deploys innovative investigation of below-the-line roles to rewrite the history of film in the period, thus offering critical historical and transnational dimensions to debates about women and film today. Were it not for the presence of female actors, you might think that women have never made any contribution, or only a vanishingly minor one, to the history of Spanish film and television. Twenty-five years after the mid-1990s boom, when more women became directors, you can count those with a sustained career with one hand; you need even fewer fingers to count those with transnational success. When researchers look for women, they have directors and above-the-line jobs in mind. Looking for women in directing and other above-the-line professions is a false solution. In the 1970s, when changes in legislation permitted women to work outside the home, women in fact joined crucial below-the-line film professions indeed some were performed almost exclusively by women, like editing. If we know how to look, women were in fact everywhere in the film cultures of Spain.
Author Bio
Sally Faulkner is Professor and Assistant Deputy Vice Chancellor (Europe) & Professor of Hispanic Studies and Film Studies, at the University of Exeter, UK. She is author of Literary Adaptations in Spanish Cinema (2004), A Cinema of Contradiction: Spanish Film in the 1960s (2006) and A History of Spanish Film (Bloomsbury, 2013; Spanish Vervuert-Iberoamericana 2017). She is editor of Middlebrow Cinema (2016) and co-runs a Digital Humanities Subtitling project. Nuria Triana-Toribio is Professor of Hispanic Studies at the University of Kent, UK. She is author of Spanish National Cinema (2003), co-author of The Cinema of Alex de la Iglesia (2007) and Spanish Film Cultures (2016), co-editor of the series Spanish and Latin American Filmmakers.
