Abstract
This chapter discusses sexuality, cosmopolitanism, and consumerism that promoted female subjectivity as a complex and fractious combination of acceptable and threatening models of womanhood by enabling women to act out alternative identities that challenged more restrictive feminine roles. It shows how stereotypes of exoticized and idealized women in early narrative films reflected profound societal changes that occurred in the 1920s in Spain, providing spectators with a broadened spectrum of womanhood. Amidst these societal changes, theatre and cinema directors, certain factions of the literati, and the female workforce of the entertainment business participated in a collective invention of their perception of a modernized, cosmopolitan, urban Spanish citizenry, embodying modernity in political, psychosocial, or poetic relationships.
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