Femininity and constructing national identity in Spanish postwar cinema, 1939–45
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Femininity and constructing national identity in Spanish postwar cinema, 1939-45 examines the intersection of gender politics and Spanish film production in the period between the end of the Spanish Civil War and the end of WWII. This was a period when the Franco regime was attempting to rewrite the history of the Spanish Civil War in the popular imagination through the production of war pictures that glorified the victors. Surprisingly, directors who had proven themselves firm supporters of the Franco regime had their work censored when they attempted to portray female wartime heroism. Through comparative studies of films that received official support and those that were censored, a clear pattern emerges that outlines the parameters of how women could acceptably be portrayed in an emerging Spanish industry that sought to define the place of women in postwar Spanish society.
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