Gender-Based Violence in Galician Noir
What is it about?
This article examines the ways in which gender-based violence is dealt with in two very different Galician noir series; Season 1 of the TVG-Netflix hit Bitter Daisies (2018) directed by Miguel Conde and the low-budget feminist web series Monstras (2020) directed by Eire García Cid. These contrasting examples complicate traditional stereotypes about women as victims of men's aggression whilst drawing attention to the ways in which society facilitates violence against women and girls. While Monstras is a socially-conscious artistic response to male violence, Bitter Daisies is driven primarily by commercial concerns, which means that its feminist message is less effective - for example, women's bodies are objectified. This demonstrates how the promotion of women's rights is much more prominent in grassroots audiovisual media than mainstream television.