Gender and Adaptation in the Filmic Legacy of Emilia Pardo Bazán

This article studies film and telefilm adaptations of works by Emilia Pardo Bazán, highlighting gender inequalities. Though a key figure in discourses of gender, she is underrepresented in cinema. The few times her fiction has been adapted, her perspective as a woman writer has been disregarded. La sirena negra (1947) by Carlos Serrano de Osma, based on her 1908 novel, and the four-part miniseries by Gonzalo Suárez (1985), based on Los pazos de Ulloa (1886) and La madre naturaleza (1887), are examined as case studies alongside adaptations of other writers for comparison.