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This article examines how domestic violence has been depicted in mainstream English-language cinema. I offer readings of Sleeping with the Enemy, Tina: What's Love Got to Do With It, Once Were Warriors, Nil By Mouth and Enough that examine both common and specific representational strategies. My analysis is grounded in theoretical approaches and heuristic tools more commonly found in feminist criticism than in film studies.

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In September 2007, a stage production of Pedro Almodóvar's film Todo sobre mi madre received its world premiere at the Old Vic theatre in london. It marked the first official adaptation of the director's work in English, and the first stage version of one of his films that he had actively endorsed. In this article, I examine how this Spanish film came to be staged in Britain and then move on to a critical reading of the production. In my reading, I place special emphasis on two particular aspects. Firstly, I consider whether the theatrical version succeeds in offering a vision of Almodóvar's film that functions effectively in an English sociolinguistic setting. Secondly, I analyse some of the processes by which the play transplants an already highly theatrical film to the stage.

Four bullfighters stood as MPs in the April 2019 Spanish general elections: Miguel Abell an and Salvador Vega for the PP; and Serafín Martín and Pablo Ciprés for Vox. None was elected, although Abell an and Martín came close. The former's allegiance was rewarded with his political appointment by the PP's Isabel Díaz Ayuso as Director-General of Madrid's Centre for Taurine Activities. Bullfighters throwing their hats into the political arena is inextricably linked to the escalation of Spain's cultural wars and critically interrogating the ongoing controversies surrounding the future of bullfighting constitutes a privileged lens through which to view increasingly visible fissures in the post-Franco constitutional order. Using archival materials and ethnographic research alongside an interview conducted with Abell an, this article explores the interrelationship of bullfighting with the Catalan secessionist vote as well as its currency in the struggle between Vox and the PP for the conservative vote.