ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the R.D. 3304/19832, popularly known as Miró Law, enacted under the first Socialist government led by the PSOE (1982–1986), when democracy was definitely established in Spain after the Transition period (1975–1982). The Law was named after Pilar Miró, a cinephile female film auteur in charge of the film policies in her position as Head of the ICAA between 1982 and 1985; this Law ruled the Spanish film industry throughout the 1980s. The three key issues this chapter assesses are: first, which were the main competing interests in the field of Spanish cinema during the period when the country was creating a new cinema that had to convey its new democratic values and to what of those interests the film Law enacted by Miró responded to; second, how far and in what ways Miró own status as a woman cinephile policymaker shaped her tastes and how these tastes were enshrined in the Law; finally, what effects did the Miró Law had over the film industry and, particularly, over the women working in the film industry.
