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'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

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'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. / Camino, Mercedes.
In: Forum for Modern Language Studies, Vol. 41, No. 3, 07.2005, p. 333-342.

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Camino, M 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, vol. 41, no. 3, pp. 333-342. https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqi022

APA

Camino, M. (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), 333-342. https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqi022

Vancouver

Camino M. '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. 2005 Jul;41(3):333-342. doi: 10.1093/fmls/cqi022

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Camino, Mercedes. / '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. In: Forum for Modern Language Studies. 2005 ; Vol. 41, No. 3. pp. 333-342.

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abstract = "In ¿Qu{\'e} 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.",
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