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The Borderscape in a Street Film: Madrid in 'Princesses'

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  • Farshad Zahedi
Farshad Zahedi
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.63700/957

Published 2023-07-31

Keywords

  • Street Film,
  • Film Space,
  • Film Cartography,
  • Borderscape,
  • Urban Islands

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Zahedi, F. (2023). The Borderscape in a Street Film: Madrid in ’Princesses’. L’Atalante. Journal of Film Studies, (36), 125–140. https://doi.org/10.63700/957

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Abstract

The objective of this study is to explore the portrait of Madrid in Princesses (Princesas, Fernando Leon de Aranoa, 2005). At an intersection between studies of film space, urban geography, and the recent border studies, the theoretical framework of this paper is applied to a film that was considered a symptom of aesthetic changes in Spanish cinema at the beginning of the new millennium. The film offers a critical reading of Madrid in the midst of substantial changes toward globalisation by focusing on its invisibilised and marginalised urban spaces and their inhabitants. An important feature of the film is its exploration of subaltern characters who cross the city’s invisible borders in their day-to-day negotiation with the spatial interpellation. The main focus of this paper is therefore on examining the relationship of this film portrait with different urban islands and their corresponding borders. 

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