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Bodies, Spaces, and Transitions in Alberto Rodríguez’s Grupo 7 (2012) and La isla mínima (2014)

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Gender in Spanish Urban Spaces

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Abstract

Alberto Rodríguez’s La isla mínima (2014) and Grupo 7 (2012) can be characterized by their similar visual style, a temporal setting of the recent Spanish past, and the problematic relationship between two policemen with conflicting points of view who must work through their personal and interpersonal issues while solving cases in very different macro-spaces, that is, Seville in Grupo 7, and the marshlands of the Guadalquivir in La isla mínima. The author studies how Rodríguez negotiates the thematics of gender within the spatial geographies of both films, and poses the idea that the director’s historicizing aesthetic, and the linkage between the spatial and the individual, encourages re-readings of the Spanish Transition and its implications for contemporary Spain.

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  1. Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA

    Vinodh Venkatesh

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  1. Modern Languages & Literatures, Ithaca College, Ithaca, New York, USA

    Maria C. DiFrancesco

  2. Modern Languages & Literatures, Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas, USA

    Debra J. Ochoa

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Venkatesh, V. (2017). Bodies, Spaces, and Transitions in Alberto Rodríguez’s Grupo 7 (2012) and La isla mínima (2014). In: DiFrancesco, M., Ochoa, D. (eds) Gender in Spanish Urban Spaces. Hispanic Urban Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47325-3_2

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