Women in Iberian Filmic Culture (eBook)

lt;p>Elena Cordero-Hoyo is a Ph.D. student carrying out a research on 'Women’s Access to Silent Cinema in Spain and Portugal' in the PhD-COMP (University of Lisbon, KU Leuven, University of Bologna), receiving a FCT scholarship (PD/BD/128075/2016). She is part of the research projects 'Iberian and Ibero-American Dialogues' and 'Cinema and the World' at Centro de Estudos Comparatistas (Center for Comparative Studies) from the Falculty of Arts (University of Lisbon , FLUL) and of the research group 'Presence and Representation of Women in Early Cinema' (University of Girona, HAR2015-66262-P). She is also an editor of Secuencias, an online film history journal.

Begoña Soto-Vázquez is professor of media history and cinema theory at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (Madrid), where she directed the MA and Ph.D. of Spanish Cinema Studies. She is the Spanish coordinator of the 'Women's Film Pioneer Project'. She was the founder and director of the Film Archive of Andalucia and has collaborated with film restoration projects within the Filmoteca Española and Filmoteca de Catalunya. She is part of the research group 'Presence and Representation of Women in Early Cinema' (University of Girona, HAR2015-66262-P) and a member of the Asociación Española de Historiadores del Cine and Domitor.

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

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

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

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