Journal | Rassegna iberistica
Journal issue | 38 | 103 | 2015
Research Article | The Female españolada

The Female españolada

Abstract

The first three generations of female directors in Spain (Helena Cortesina, Rosario Pi Brujas, Margarita Alexandre, Ana Mariscal and Josefina Molina) have used the espa–ñolada, a cinematic genre of French import, as a privileged filmic discourse to create female models that, more or less explicitly, differ from those established by the dominant status quo. This corpus subverts the traditional parameters of such a genre, parameters that varied throughout the changes of Spain’s political background. The directors desexualized women while the official Republican discourse of the españ–olada sexualized them; and vice versa, when the hegemonic Francoist discourse created models of purity and chastity, women’s cinema forged erotic female figures. In spite of the differences throughout the evolution of this corpus, the protagonists persistently chose their freedom; a freedom that rarely corresponded to the stability of marriage, even though, paradoxically, the only way to obtain it was at times through their systematic decorporization, or rather, their death.


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Published June 25, 2015 | Language: it

Copyright © 2015 Barbara Zecchi. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

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