Subtitling ¡Vámonos, Bárbara! (Barbara, Let’s Go!, Bartolomé 1978): a Subtitling World Cinema Project Film Screening & Guest Lecture by Professor Sally Faulkner (University of Cambridge) Prof Sally Faulkner’s guest lecture foced on Cecilia Bartolomé’s ¡Vámonos, Bárbara! (1978). The film was subtitled by Exeter MA in Translation Studies students in 2022, co-supervised by Prof. Sally Faulkner and Dr. Eliana Maestri. The event […]
PROF. SALLY FAULKNER FILM SHOWING ¡Vámonos, Bárbara! (Barbara, Let’s Go!, Bartolomé 1978) & GUEST LECTURE Subtitling ¡Vámonos, Bárbara! (Barbara, Let’s Go!, Bartolomé 1978): a Subtitling World Cinema Project Prof Sally Faulkner’s guest lecture will draw on her most recent monograph, The Cinema of Cecilia Bartolomé: Feminism and Francoism (2024), the first monograph in English on this brilliant, yet forgotten, director. It will also draw on Professor […]
Transitions and Beyond: Women’s Work in Spanish and Portuguese Cinema & TV A two-day symposium, organised by the AHRC-funded project Leading Women in Portuguese and Spanish Film and TV (1970-1980) is taking place 20–21 March 2026 at Peterhouse, University of Cambridge. The two-day symposium brings Spanish and Portuguese cinema and television into conversation by comparing […]
Prof. Núria Triana Toribio and Prof. Sally Faulkner spoke at the invitation of the Grupo de investigación en Aprendizajes, Medios y Entretenimiento (GAME) (Research Group on Training, Media and Entertainment) in Barcelona on 3 December 2025. They presented the ‘Leading Women’ project and discussed the research behind their forthcoming co-authored monograph Leading Women in Spanish Cinema and […]
Cambridge Film Festival, in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council Leading Women project, Film and Screen, University of Cambridge and Peterhouse presented ‘Hail Mary: Motherhood on Page and Screen’: a rich and insightful discussion with author and academic Katixa Agirre and members of the Leading Women team. The one-of-a-kind event took place on […]
During the 44th Cambridge Film Festival, ‘Leading Women’ hosted a post-screening Q&A session with Basque novelist Katixa Agirre, author of the book “Las madres no” (“Mothers Don’t”), adapted for the screen by Catalan filmmaker Mar Coll as Salve Maria. The film stars Laura Weissmahr in a genre-bending exploration of postpartum depression and the irrational facets […]
On 29 October, Prof. Sally Faulkner delivered her Inaugural lecture of the endowed Chair at Peterhouse, University of Cambridge. The lecture was focused on Spanish cinema and television, asking: what happens when we re-focus screen histories through the lens of gender and feminism? Prof. Faulkner discussed the period of Spain’s Transition from dictatorship to democracy […]
Leading Women in Spanish Film and Television Inaugural lecture of the endowed Chair: Sally Faulkner, 1933 Professor of Spanish. Peterhouse, University of Cambridge Date: 29 Oct 2025, 5:30pm Location: Lubbock Theatre, Peterhouse This lecture will focus on Spanish cinema and television to ask: what happens when we re-focus screen histories through the lens of gender […]
On Saturday 25th and Sunday 26th March, the ¡Viva! Spanish and Latin American Film Festival, Manchester, will host the UK première of a feature-length film, a medium-length film and a short by Spanish director Cecilia Bartolomé, ¡Vámonos, Bárbara! (1978), Margarita y el lobo (1969) and Carmen de Carabanchel (1965) . Each screening will be introduced […]
‘III Encontro Internacional de História Oral Audiovisual do Cinema Português’ organised at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa (IHC – FCSH NOVA) by Raquel Paulo Rato, 27-28 October 2022. Prof Hilary Owen FBA is the invited keynote and will be speaking on: “Leading Women: Trabalho de Mulheres na Produção Cinematográfica de Portugal na Década de 1970”. […]
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