The Spanish Postwar in current Spanish Cinema: women’s prison and study of characters in Las 13 rosas and La voz dormida
Abstract
Since the Transition, Spanish cinema has developed a significant preoccupation with our recent past, specifically the Second Republic, Civil War and Francoism. From the dictatorship, the poswar period has acquired presence in films about repression, such us those belonging to the prison drama. Thus, Las 13 rosas (Emilio Martínez-Lázaro, 2007) y La voz dormida (2007) stand out, starring female characters mainly related to the Republican side. With the aim of studying the representation of women in this subgenre –marked by ideology, politics and family life-, a qualitative methodology and an analysis of characters are used. Both films tend towards melodrama and delve into Franco’s purge against various profiles of female prisioners.
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