Description: Fusing a distinctive feminist aesthetics with a startling vision of twentieth-century Spain, the work of Cecilia Bartolomé casts a new light on the histories of both Spanish national film, and transnational women's cinema. This book places Bartolomé among other key auteurs of national Spanish, and transnational feminist, cinema.
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This book plays a significant role in widening the scope of knowledge surrounding this key director. Indeed, it is in the meticulous archival work, interviews and her eloquent glossing of these that the book is so valuable to feminist media scholars, film historians and Hispanists alike. More importantly perhaps, it stresses that 'the encounter with Bartolomé's work is a joy for audiences' (200). Faulkner's sensitivity to cultural and political context and to film form combine in an eloquent examination of this director's feminist aesthetic. It is an aesthetic that combines a formal acuity with the awareness of the details of the everyday with an astute understanding of the power of humour, music and melodrama even in potentially difficult situations.
Studies in Spanish & Latin American Cinemas