Camino, Mercedes (2005) 'Madrid me mata':Killing the Husband in Pedro Almodóvar's ¿Qué he hecho yo para merecer esto? and Alex de la Iglesia's La comunidad. Forum for Modern Language Studies, 41 (3). pp. 333-342.
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Abstract
In ¿Qué he hecho yo …!! and La comunidad, Carmen Maura plays Gloria and Julia, two characters who struggle to survive in Madrid. In addition to offering a commentary on late-twentieth-century sexism, these films foreground class prejudices and the tensions of a big urban centre. Both films enact the famous slogan of the 1980s, “Madrid me mata”, to suggest that these women's husbands need to be killed for a new environment to be born.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Journal or Publication Title: | Forum for Modern Language Studies |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Spanish film ; Almodóvar, Pedro ; de la Iglesia, Alex ; Madrid ; movida, gender and film |
| Subjects: | UNSPECIFIED |
| Departments: | Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences > History |
| ID Code: | 50524 |
| Deposited By: | ep_importer_pure |
| Deposited On: | 27 Oct 2011 14:12 |
| Refereed?: | Yes |
| Published?: | Published |
| Last Modified: | 28 Feb 2013 14:41 |
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| URI: | http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/50524 |
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