¡Vámonos, Bárbara! (Barbara, Let’s Go!) Film Screening and Guest Lecture by Prof. Sally Faulkner at University of Exeter

Posted 16 January 2026

¡Vámonos, Bárbara! (Barbara, Let’s Go!, Cecilia Bartolomé 1978) (photo credit: Insituto Cervantes)

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 Will Higbee, Professor Danielle Hipkins (both University of Exeter) and her teaching and research project Subtitling World Cinema. Specifically, it will focus on ¡Vámonos, Bárbara! (Barbara, Let’s Go!, Bartolomé 1978). The film was subtitled by Exeter MA in Translation Studies students in 2022, co-supervised by Prof. Sally Faulkner and Dr. Eliana Maestri.

UNIVERSITY OF EXETER

129 OLD LIBRARY, 6^TH FEB

FILM SHOWING: 10-11.30 am

GUEST LECTURE and Q&A: 11.45 – 13.00 pm

Places are limited. If you want to attend, please email E.MAESTRI@exeter.ac.uk

The event is organised by Translation Studies, University of Exeter.

Professor Sally Faulkner studied French and Spanish at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, and was appointed to a Lectureship in Spanish at the University of Exeter in 2001. In 2024 Professor Faulkner returned to Cambridge following her election to the 1933 Professorship in Spanish and joined the fellowship of Peterhouse.

Professor Faulkner’s research focuses principally on Spanish cinema, with significant interests also in Spanish television, European (especially Portuguese) film, and Latin American cinema. Professor Faulkner shares her work with wide audiences by collaborating with film festivals, independent cinemas, and institutions (especially Filmoteca Española and the Instituto Cervantes). She has a particular interest in sharing previously inaccessible films in Spanish with wider Anglophone audiences through subtitling into English.

Do you want to know more? Sally’s first project, El mundo sigue / Life Goes On (Fernán Gómez 1963) is available to stream here, and a blog post about the subtitling and screening of Bartolomé’s ¡Vámonos, Bárbara! / Bárbara, Let’s Go! (1978), is available here.