The members of the jury of the II Premi ADHUC 2016, organized by the Research Centre in Theory, Gender and Sexuality (ADHUC) and the Consolidated Research Group Creació i Pensament de les Dones (Universitat de Barcelona), have decided to grant the award to the work Rehacer los géneros. Mujeres cineastas dentro y fuera de Hollywood, by Katarzyna Paszkiewicz. This book seeks to interrogate the contribution made by American women filmmakers to genre cinema. The book will be published in Icaria's series "Mujeres y culturas".
The landmark victory of Kathryn Bigelow at the Oscars in 2010 has generated much debate about why she was the one to break through the metaphorical glass ceiling and why it was with this film. Both genre and gender were central to these debates. The book Rehacer los géneros explores the tensions that arise at the intersection of these concepts in order to illuminate the ways in which women filmmakers draw on genre (horror film, the Western, war film) in the American context. The book challenges traditional male/female genre divisions, as well as re-evaluates certain genres as a space worthy of feminist criticism.
