Femininity and constructing national identity in Spanish postwar cinema, 1939-45

Femininity and constructing national identity in Spanish postwar cinema, 1939-1945 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...