The Cinema of Cecilia Bartolomé

<p>Were it not for authoritarian state censorship Cecilia Bartolomé's name would figure alongside those of her contemporaries Agnès Varda and Claire Denis as a pioneering feminist filmmaker of the twentieth century. With this bold claim this book seeks both to write the history of Bartolomé's extant filmography and speculate about censored and un-filmed work thereby fashioning a new way of writing a feminist creative life in film.<br>The first volume on this director to be written in English <i>The Cinema of Cecilia Bartolomé </i>is also the first volume on the director published in any language for over twenty years. By focusing on Spanish-language cinema of the 1960s-90s the period when feminism like democracy was re-born and seemingly consolidated in Spain the study brings historical depth and transnational reach to current debates in the wake of #MeToo.</p>