Kurzbeschreibung
In the 1970s, especially after Franco’s death in 1975, Spanish cinema was bursting at the seams. Numerous film directors broke free from the ancient taboos which had reigned under the dictatorship. They introduced characters who, through their bodies, transgress the traditional borders of social, cultural and sexual identities. Post- Franco cinema exhibits women, homosexuals, transsexuals, and delinquents in new and challenging ways. Under Franco rule, all of these dissident bodies were ‘lost’. Here, they reflect new mythological figures, inhabiting an idealised body form (a prototypical body). These new images transform the stereotyped bodies as they question ancient archetypal values. Spanish cinema offers a dazzling performance transforming previous dissident bodies into the new protagonists of its national cinema.

Über den Autor
Dr. Pietsie Feenstra lectures at Sorbonne University, Paris III, in the department of Film studies. She is a member of the French Research group Theatres de la Memoire at Sorbonne University|Dr. Pietsie Feenstra lectures at Sorbonne University, Paris III, in the department of Film studies. For this research she was invited to lecture at several European Universities (University of Amsterdam, University of Groningen, University of Marne la Vallee Paris XII, University of Paul-Verlaine Metz). This English book is a translation and updated version of her French PhD published as; Les nouvelles figures mythiques du cinema espagnol 1975-1995. A corps perdus, Preface de Michele Lagny, Paris: Harmattan, Collection Champs Visuels, 2006. Her work on contemporary cinema is published in a Spanish edition with Hub. Hermans, Miradas sobre pasado y presente en el cine espanol 1990-2005, Amsterdam/Atlanta: Rodopi, Ndegree 32, 2008 (Awarded with a Premio de Mejor Libro de Compilacion de la Asociacion Espanola de Historiadores de Cine). Recently she published the edition Memoire du cinema espagnol 1975-2007, Paris: Corlet/Telerama, CinemAction, Ndegree 130, 2009. She is a member of the French Research group Theatres de la Memoire at Sorbonne University.