Women in Iberian Filmic Culture

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


 


Notes on contributors