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- Title
Del thriller a la cárcel: mujeres criminales en la obra cinematográfica de Isabel Coixet y Belén Macías.
- Authors
Pacheco Jiménez, Laura; Durán Manso, Valeriano
- Abstract
The presence of women filmmakers has been scarce in Spanish cinema. With the exception of Ana Mariscal, Josefina Molina and, above all, Pilar Miró, few filmmakers have achieved a stable film career. In the 1990s, new names appeared on the national film scene, with films of various genres starring women. Traditionally, two of the least related to female prominence have been prison drama and thriller, but Belén Macías and Isabel Coixet address them in El patio de mi cárcel (2008) and Mapa de los sonidos de Tokyo (2009), respectively. With the aim of knowing the evolution of these women filmmakers and highlighting their contribution in the treatment of these issues, the main characters of both films, framed in the field of criminality and in the fight against it, are analyzed as a person and as a role, according to Francesco Casetti and Federico Di Chio. From these considerations, this work aims to reflect on the faih of Macías and Coixet to treat two narrative genres usually linked to directors, to have the absolute leading role of female characters and to represent new roles for women in current Spanish cinema.
- Subjects
WOMEN filmmakers; FICTIONAL characters; WOMEN'S roles; FILM genres; FILM characters; SPANISH films
- Publication
Revista Fotocinema, 2021, Issue 23, p97
- ISSN
2172-0150
- Publication type
Article