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TY - JOUR
T1 - 'Madrid me mata'
T2 - Killing the Husband in Pedro Almodóvar's ¿Qué he hecho yo para merecer esto? and Alex de la Iglesia's La comunidad
AU - Camino, Mercedes
PY - 2005/7
Y1 - 2005/7
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Spanish film
KW - Almodóvar, Pedro
KW - de la Iglesia, Alex
KW - Madrid
KW - movida, gender and film
U2 - 10.1093/fmls/cqi022
DO - 10.1093/fmls/cqi022
M3 - Journal article
VL - 41
SP - 333
EP - 342
JO - Forum for Modern Language Studies
JF - Forum for Modern Language Studies
SN - 1471-6860
IS - 3
ER -