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

This open access book offers a feminist cultural history of Spain of the 1970s, exploring the work of women in the audio-visual industries who joined the workforce in significant numbers over this decade of Transition from the Franco dictatorship, to a democracy that enshrined gender equality in its constitution of 1978.

Leading Women in Spanish Cinema and Television in the Long 1970s seeks the work of women in new places and analyses it in new ways. Rejecting the director-auteur approach, w...