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Haptic Visuality and Film Narration. Mapping New Women’s Cinema in Spain
2020
There is a trend in female film production in the 21st century in the context of Spain towards a type of cinema that we could classify as haptic. It is a mode of representation concerned with multisensory expression in film images. In this article, we shall study this haptic visuality in the works of four filmmakers: Isabel Coixet, Paula Ortiz, Mar Coll and Carla Simón, whose films in this century exemplify the trend. The method chosen is textual analysis, which will provide us with the necessary tools to study matters concerning representation (framing), narration (nuclei and catalysis) and communication (spectatorial subject). These three analytical categories together will enable us to s…
The Feminine Monster. The Uncanny and the Construction of Motherness in Furtivos
2018
The maternal figure embodies one of the most recurrent metaphors in Spanish cinema of late-Francoism and transi-tion, a metaphor that has been read as a device of social criticism towards the dictatorship. Largely due to the sym-bolic connotations that the Franco regime had projected on motherhood, it has been connected with the dictatorial past, functioning on the screen as a monstrous and uncanny personification of the Francoist repressive apparatus. Thus the maternal has become a privileged space for the deployment of film narratives that explore how power rela-tions within the family can be portrayed as a symbol of the relationship between the subject and the State. This arti-cle deals …
Barbara Zecchi.Desenfocadas. Cineastas españolas y discursos de género.Barcelona: Icaria, 2014. 246 pp.
2015
La historia del cine espanol ha invisibilizado el trabajo de las mujeres cineastas, relegando al olvido sus textos filmicos y borrando su participacion en la construccion de la cultura audiovisual....