Book Review
The Spanish Quinqui Film: Delinquency, Sound, Sensation
Davies A (2022) The Spanish Quinqui Film: Delinquency, Sound, Sensation. Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, 99 (2), pp. 177-178. https://doi.org/10.3828/bhs.2022.13
About me
I have published widely on contemporary Spanish cinema, with an emphasis on landscape, genre, on Basque cinema and on gender and sexualities. I am the author of monographs on Spanish Gothic (Edinburgh University Press 2016), Penélope Cruz (Palgrave Macmillan 2014), Spanish landscape, space and place (Liverpool University Press 2012); on the Basque director Daniel Calparsoro (Manchester University Press, 2009) and the Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar (Grant & Cutler, 2007); and on gender relations in Don Juan plays (Edwin Mellen 2004). I am co-author of a monograph on Carmen on film (with Phil Powrie, Bruce Babington and Chris Perriam; Indiana University Press 2007). I have edited a volume on contemporary Spanish cinema (Palgrave Macmillan 2011), and co-edited volumes on Carmen on film (with Chris Perriam; Rodopi 2006) and masculinities in Hollywood and European cinema (with Phil Powrie and Bruce Babington; Wallflower Press 2004).
Professional membership
Former Membership Secretary, Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland
Former President, Women in Spanish and Portuguese Studies
Research
My overall research approach is based broadly within film and cultural studies. My primary field of research is that of contemporary Spanish cinema and contemporary Spanish Gothic, and the use of landscape, space and place in Gothic and Spanish culture. I also research on the films of Guillermo del Toro. I have previously worked on Basque cinema, film noir and the thriller, masculinities in Spanish cinema and the figure of Carmen on film. I have also written on the Spanish star Penélope Cruz.
Outputs (51)
Outputs
Book Chapter
Carmen voyageuse: Représentations de Carmen en dehors de l’Espagne
Davies A (2020) Carmen voyageuse: Représentations de Carmen en dehors de l’Espagne. In: Lozier C & Marc I (eds.) Carmen revisitée / revisiter Carmen: nouveaux visages d’un mythe transversal. Comparatisme & Societe, 41. Bern: Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, pp. 127-144. https://doi.org/10.3726/b17155
Book Chapter
Ghostly Presences: Guillermo del Toro’s Crimson Peak
Davies A (2020) Ghostly Presences: Guillermo del Toro’s Crimson Peak. In: Sandy M & Cracolici S (eds.) Ghostly Encounters: Cultural and Imaginary Representations of the Spectral from the Nineteenth Century to the Present. Routledge, pp. 89-101.
Book Chapter
The Queer Gothic Regime of Narciso Ibáñez Serrador's La residencia (1969)
Davies A (2020) The Queer Gothic Regime of Narciso Ibáñez Serrador's La residencia (1969). In: Lema-Hincapié A & Domènech C (eds.) Indiscreet Fantasies: Iberian Queer Cinema. Bucknell University Press.
Book Chapter
Renouncing Violence: Terrorism and Feminisation in Basque Cinema
Davies A (2020) Renouncing Violence: Terrorism and Feminisation in Basque Cinema. In: Maseda García R, Gámez Fuentes MJ & Zecchi B (eds.) Gender-Based Violence in Latin American and Iberian Cinemas. Taylor & Francis (Routledge), pp. 59-72.
Article
Pleasure and historical memory in Spanish Gothic film
Davies A (2019) Pleasure and historical memory in Spanish Gothic film. Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, 96 (4), pp. 397-411. https://doi.org/10.3828/bhs.2019.23
Article
Tren de sombras: memory, genre and film technology
Davies A (2019) Tren de sombras: memory, genre and film technology. Quarterly Review of Film and Video, 36 (2), pp. 87-103. https://doi.org/10.1080/10509208.2018.1486114
Article
Hispanic horror: An introduction
Davies A (2019) Hispanic horror: An introduction. Horror Studies, 10 (2), pp. 145-153. https://doi.org/10.1386/host_00001_2
Article
Women and Haunted Houses in the Films of Jaume Balagueró: The Nightmares of Presence
Davies A (2019) Women and Haunted Houses in the Films of Jaume Balagueró: The Nightmares of Presence. Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, 96 (6), pp. 641-653. https://doi.org/10.3828/bhs.2019.38
Book Chapter
Contemporary Spanish Gothic Heroines
Davies A (2017) Contemporary Spanish Gothic Heroines. In: Marí J (ed.) Tracing the Borders of Spanish Horror Cinema and Television. Routledge, pp. 34-49.
Authored Book
Davies A (2016) Contemporary Spanish Gothic. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-contemporary-spanish-gothic.html
Book Chapter
Spanish Gothic Cinema: The Hidden Continuities of a Hidden Genre
Davies A (2015) Spanish Gothic Cinema: The Hidden Continuities of a Hidden Genre. In: Oliete-Aldea E, Oria B & Tarancón J (eds.) Global Genres, Local Films: The Transnational Dimension of Spanish Cinema. London: Bloomsbury, pp. 115-126. http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/global-genres-local-films-9781501303005/
Book Chapter
Slime and Subtlety: Monsters in del Toro’s Spanish-language Films
Davies A (2015) Slime and Subtlety: Monsters in del Toro’s Spanish-language Films. In: Morehead J (ed.) The Supernatural Cinema of Guillermo del Toro: Critical Essays. Jefferson NC: McFarland, pp. 41-57. http://www.mcfarlandbooks.com/book-2.php?id=978-0-7864-9595-5
Website Content
Gothic Sunshine: Spanish Film and the Creep Factor of the Full Light of Day
Davies A (2015) Gothic Sunshine: Spanish Film and the Creep Factor of the Full Light of Day. The Gothic Imagination, 06.03.2015. http://www.gothic.stir.ac.uk/blog/gothic-sunshine-spanish-film-and-the-creep-factor-of-the-full-light-of-day/
Book Chapter
Corps et paysages dans les films de Penélope Cruz
Davies A (2014) Corps et paysages dans les films de Penélope Cruz. In: Tilly E & Duprat A A (eds.) Corps et Territoire: arts et litterature à travers l’Europe et l’Amérique. Des sociétés. Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, pp. 27-36. http://www.pur-editions.fr/detail.php?idOuv=3673
Book Chapter
Guillermo del Toro’s Monsters: Matter Out of Place
Davies A (2014) Guillermo del Toro’s Monsters: Matter Out of Place. In: Davies A, Shaw D & Tierney D (eds.) The Transnational Fantasies of Guillermo del Toro. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 29-43. http://www.palgrave.com/br/book/9781137407832
Edited Book
The Transnational Fantasies of Guillermo del Toro
Davies A, Shaw D & Tierney D (eds.) (2014) The Transnational Fantasies of Guillermo del Toro. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. http://www.palgrave.com/br/book/9781137407832
Edited Book
The Transnational Fantasies of Guillermo del Toro
Davies A, Shaw D & Tierney D (eds.) (2014) The Transnational Fantasies of Guillermo del Toro. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/the-transnational-fantasies-of-guillermo-del-toro-ann-davies/?K=9781137407832
Authored Book
Davies A (2014) Penélope Cruz. Film Stars. Basingstoke: BFI/Palgrave Macmillan. http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=493008
Website Content
Ghostbusting: Pursuing the Spectres of Spanish Cinema
Davies A (2014) Ghostbusting: Pursuing the Spectres of Spanish Cinema. Mediático, 17.02.2014. http://reframe.sussex.ac.uk/mediatico/2014/02/17/ghostbusting-pursuing-the-spectres-of-spanish-cinema/
Book Chapter
Ana Díez: Basque Cinema, Gender and the (Home)land
Davies A (2013) Ana Díez: Basque Cinema, Gender and the (Home)land. In: Nair P & Gutiérrez-Albilla J (eds.) Hispanic and Lusophone Women Filmmakers: Critical Discourses and Cinematic Practices. Manchester: Manchester University Press, pp. 115-125. http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?product=9780719083570
Book Chapter
Singing of Dubious Desire: Imperio Argentina and Penélope Cruz as Nazi Germany’s Exotic Other
Davies A (2012) Singing of Dubious Desire: Imperio Argentina and Penélope Cruz as Nazi Germany’s Exotic Other. In: Shaw L, Stone R & Biddle I (eds.) Screening Songs in Hispanic and Lusophone Cinema. Manchester: Manchester University Press, pp. 17-29. http://us.macmillan.com/screeningsongsinhispanicandlusophonecinema/LisaShaw
Authored Book
Spanish Spaces: Landscape, Space and Place in Contemporary Spanish Culture
Davies A (2012) Spanish Spaces: Landscape, Space and Place in Contemporary Spanish Culture. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. http://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/search/hfclient.isa?A=BOOKSONIX_LUP_BOOKSHOP&F=form&AS=FIND%7CG2%7C&AS2=%7CAND%7CU1%7CA/F&view=wrapper&AS1=9781846318221
Edited Book
Spain on Screen: Developments in Contemporary Spanish Cinema
Davies A (ed.) (2011) Spain on Screen: Developments in Contemporary Spanish Cinema. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. http://www.palgraveconnect.com/pc/doifinder/10.1057/9780230294745
Book Chapter
The Final Girl and Monstrous Mother of El orfanato
Davies A (2011) The Final Girl and Monstrous Mother of El orfanato. In: Davies A (ed.) Spain on Screen: Developments in Contemporary Spanish Cinema. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 79-92. http://www.palgraveconnect.com/pc/doifinder/10.1057/9780230294745
Book Chapter
Phil Powrie: French Film Studies as a Heterotopic Field
Davies A (2010) Phil Powrie: French Film Studies as a Heterotopic Field. In: Higbee W & Leahy S (eds.) Studies in French Cinema: UK Perspectives 1985-2010. Bristol: Intellect, pp. 167-176. http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/books/view-Book,id=4708/
Book Chapter
The femme fatale of Spanish Retro Noir: the Recuperation of a Repressed Voice
Davies A (2010) The femme fatale of Spanish Retro Noir: the Recuperation of a Repressed Voice. In: O'Rawe C & Hanson H (eds.) The Femme Fatale: Images, Histories, Contexts. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 145-156. http://www.palgraveconnect.com/pc/doifinder/10.1057/9780230282018
Authored Book
Davies A (2009) Daniel Calparsoro. Spanish and Latin American Filmmakers. Manchester: Manchester University Press. http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?product=9780719073649
Article
Woman and Home: Gender and the Theorisation of Basque (National) Cinema
Davies A (2009) Woman and Home: Gender and the Theorisation of Basque (National) Cinema. Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, 10 (3), pp. 359-372. https://doi.org/10.1080/14636200903186913
Article
Criminality and the Left in Spanish Retro Noir Films
Davies A (2009) Criminality and the Left in Spanish Retro Noir Films. Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies, 15 (1), pp. 15-28. https://doi.org/10.1080/14701840903160085
Article
Guillermo del Toro’s Cronos: the Vampire As Embodied Heterotopia
Davies A (2008) Guillermo del Toro’s Cronos: the Vampire As Embodied Heterotopia. Quarterly Review of Film and Video, 25 (5), pp. 395-403. https://doi.org/10.1080/10509200601093314
Edited Book
Making Waves Anniversary Volume: Women in Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies
Davies A, Kumaraswami P & Williams C (eds.) (2008) Making Waves Anniversary Volume: Women in Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press. http://www.c-s-p.org/flyers/Making-Waves-Anniversary-Volume--Women-in-Spanish--Portuguese-and-Latin-American-Studies1-84718-464-2.htm
Authored Book
Carmen on Film: a Cultural History
Powrie P, Babington B, Davies A & Perriam C (2007) Carmen on Film: a Cultural History. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Authored Book
Davies A (2007) Pedro Almodóvar. Critical guides to Spanish and Latin American texts and films, 72. London: Grant & Cutler.
Article
Davies A (2007) The Beautiful and the Monstrous Masculine: the Male Body and Horror in El espinazo del diablo (Guillermo del Toro 2011). Studies in Hispanic Cinemas, 3 (3), pp. 135-147. https://doi.org/10.1386/shci.3.3.135_1
Book Chapter
Davies A (2007) Spanish Neo-noir. In: Spicer A (ed.) European Film Noir. Manchester: Manchester University Press, pp. 210-235. http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?product=9780719067914
Book Chapter
Resurrecting Carmen: Sexual and Ethnic Identity in the Cinema
Davies A (2006) Resurrecting Carmen: Sexual and Ethnic Identity in the Cinema. In: Wintle M (ed.) Image into Identity: Constructing and Assigning Identity in a Culture of Modernity. Studia Imagologica, 11. Amsterdam: Rodopi, pp. 211-222. http://www.rodopi.nl/functions/search.asp?BookId=IMAGOL+11
Authored Book
Carmen on Screen: an Annotated Filmography and Bibliography
Davies A & Powrie P (2006) Carmen on Screen: an Annotated Filmography and Bibliography. Research Bibliographies and Checklists. London: Boydell and Brewer. http://www.boydellandbrewer.com/store/viewItem.asp?idProduct=7406
Edited Book
Carmen: From Silent Film to MTV
Perriam C & Davies A (eds.) (2005) Carmen: From Silent Film to MTV. Critical Studies, 24. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi. http://www.rodopi.nl/senj.asp?BookId=Crit+24
Article
Can the Contemporary Crime Thriller be Spanish?
Davies A (2005) Can the Contemporary Crime Thriller be Spanish?. Studies in European Cinema, 2 (3), pp. 173-183. https://doi.org/10.1386/seci.2.3.173/1
Book Chapter
High and Low Culture: Bizet's Carmen and the Cinema
Davies A (2005) High and Low Culture: Bizet's Carmen and the Cinema. In: Powrie P & Stilwell R (eds.) Changing Tunes: The Use of Pre-existing Music in Film. Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series. Aldershot: Ashgate, pp. 46-56. http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9780754651376
Article
Roads to Nowhere: How Basque Terrorists Cross Space and Place in Cinema
Davies A (2005) Roads to Nowhere: How Basque Terrorists Cross Space and Place in Cinema. Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, 82 (3), pp. 343-356. https://doi.org/10.3828/bhs.82.3.5
Edited Book
The Trouble with Men: Masculinities in European and Hollywood Cinema
Powrie P, Davies A & Babington B (eds.) (2005) The Trouble with Men: Masculinities in European and Hollywood Cinema. London: Wallflower Press. http://cup.columbia.edu/book/978-1-904764-09-0/the-trouble-with-men/tableOfContents
Book Chapter
The Male Body and the Female Gaze in Carmen Films
Davies A (2005) The Male Body and the Female Gaze in Carmen Films. In: Powrie P, Davies A & Babington B (eds.) The Trouble with Men: Masculinities in European and Hollywood Cinema. London: Wallflower Press, pp. 187-195. http://cup.columbia.edu/book/978-1-904764-09-0/the-trouble-with-men
Authored Book
The Metamorphoses of Don Juan's Women: Early Parity to Late Modern Pathology
Davies A (2004) The Metamorphoses of Don Juan's Women: Early Parity to Late Modern Pathology. Spanish Studies, 28. Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press. https://www.mellenpress.com/mellenpress.cfm?bookid=6006&pc=9
Article
The Spanish Femme Fatale and the Cinematic Negotiation of Spanishness
Davies A (2004) The Spanish Femme Fatale and the Cinematic Negotiation of Spanishness. Studies in Hispanic Cinemas, 1 (1), pp. 5-16. https://doi.org/10.1386/shci.1.1.5/0
Article
Male Sexuality and Basque Separatism in Two Films by Imanol Uribe
Davies A (2003) Male Sexuality and Basque Separatism in Two Films by Imanol Uribe. Hispanic Research Journal, 4 (2), pp. 121-132. https://doi.org/10.1179/hrj.2003.4.2.121
Book Chapter
Don Juan and Foucauldian Sexual Discourse: Changing Attitudes to Female Sexuality
Davies A (2001) Don Juan and Foucauldian Sexual Discourse: Changing Attitudes to Female Sexuality. In: Batley E & Bradby D (eds.) Morality and Justice: The Challenge of European Theatre. European Studies - An Interdisciplinary Series in European Culture, History and Politics, 17. Amsterdam: Rodopi, pp. 159-170. http://www.rodopi.nl/senj.asp?BookId=yes+17
Book Chapter
Hysteria: Female Desire and Male Rationality in Early Don Juan Works
Davies A (2000) Hysteria: Female Desire and Male Rationality in Early Don Juan Works. In: Ginger A, Hobbs J & Lewis H (eds.) Selected Interdisciplinary Essays on the Representation of the Don Juan Archetype in Myth and Culture. Studies in Comparative Literature, 39. Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, pp. 269-289. https://www.mellenpress.com/mellenpress.cfm?bookid=570&pc=9
Article
Who is the Model Reader of Delibes’s Cinco horas con Mario?
Davies A (1999) Who is the Model Reader of Delibes’s Cinco horas con Mario?. Modern Language Review, 94 (4), pp. 1000-1008. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3737233; https://doi.org/10.2307/3737233
Article
Inés and Brígida: Sexual Presence and Absence in Zorrilla’s Don Juan Tenorio
Davies A (1999) Inés and Brígida: Sexual Presence and Absence in Zorrilla’s Don Juan Tenorio. Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, 76 (3), pp. 327-336. https://doi.org/10.3828/bhs.76.3.327