Leading Women in Spanish Cinema and Television in the Long 1970s

Sally Faulkner is Professor of Spanish at the University of Cambridge, UK, and is a Professorial Fellow of Peterhouse. Nuria Triana-Toribio is Professor of Hispanic Studies at the University of Kent, UK.

• List of IlustrationsAcknowledgementsNote on TextIntroduction: Now You See Her …1. Editing in Female Creativity2. Television for Democracy: Carmen Sarmiento, Rosa Maria Calaf and Paloma Chamorro3. Western Literary Classics for a New Western Democracy: Literary Adaptations in Televisión Española4. Women in Children’s Programming 5. Drac Màgic and Activism Conclusion: On Looking for Something, and Finding Something ElseAppendixIndex

Connecting cinema and television history, bottom-up activism and international cultural transfer, Leading Women in Spanish Cinema and Television in the Long 1970s reframes Spanish transition to democracy as it hasn’t been told before. The volume focuses our attention on names and stories usually overseen, on voices rarely heard and on archival sources so far ignored. The result is a thought-provoking and feminist reading of a story we thought we knew so well. Timely and wide-ranging, this book is an important read for anyone interested in Spanish media and cultural history.