Date: May 22, 2025, from 12.00 pm to 2.00 pm

 Location: Room Sala En Construcció - Edifici 54. Àrea Tallers - Campus del Poblenou, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

About the dialogue

Just as Barbara Creed’s celebrated theory of the "monstrous-feminine" continues to demonstrate its relevance in dissecting the female body and its metamorphoses in Anglo-Saxon audiovisual production, it is striking how little impact it has had when applied to Spanish cinema. The historical context of this cinema unfolded a dense repressive apparatus over female subjectivity during the Francoist regime, which was later dismantled during the democratic transition and has since opened up to a constellation of dissidences and ruptures in contemporary times that go beyond the horror genre. This context offers fertile ground for developing links and tensions with Creed’s "monstrous-feminine". The dialogue between Dr. Itxaso del Castillo, author of "Mujeres furiosas. El monstruo femenino en el cine de terror" (Furious Women: The Female Monster in Horror Cinema), and Dr. Alejandro Melero, an expert in fantaterror, queer cinema and the destape genre, aims to open new pathways and interpretations in the historical relationships between the "monstrous-feminine" and Spanish cinema.

This initiative is part of the research project "Production of new subjectivities in female characters and actresses: Spanish cinema from the end of the dictatorship to the post-transition (1975–1992) (Ministry of Science and Innovation, REF: PID2021-124377NB-I00)".

All registered participants will receive a certificate of attendance. Inscriptions here.