Abstract In this paper, through a close reading of the documentary film Alcaldessa (Pau Faus 2016), and with reference to a selection of media texts and interviews, I examine the ways in which Ada Colau has come to represent a type of post-crisis politician that unsettled the established political elites in Spain in the years following the crisis. This mediatized version of the new mayor of Barcelona is both dependent on her femininity but also limited by it. In a reading informed by celebrity studies and accounts of our mediatized relationships with public figures I consider this as part of a global media and political landscape which constructs politicians through recourse to personality, and which foregrounds, in certain media, biography rather than policy. I examine the ways in which the (contradictory) discourses of neoliberal postfeminism are challenged when a female politician seeks an autonomous political power and continued activism which threatens to undo the politics of neoliberalism that have ‘granted’ her this platform in the first place. I will use the documentary as a case study and examine its attempts to counteract or perhaps contradict this limiting view of Ada Colau which foregrounds her gender and her motherhood, but which in doing so establishes her femininity as a pivotal element of her continued political success.

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后危机，后女权主义：将艾达·科劳解读为阿尔卡尔德萨的女性名人政治家（Pau Faus，2016 年）

摘要 在本文中，通过对纪录片 Alcaldessa (Pau Faus 2016) 的仔细阅读，并参考精选的媒体文本和采访，我研究了 Ada Colau 代表一种后危机时代的方式。在危机后的几年里，这位政治家扰乱了西班牙的既定政治精英。这位巴塞罗那新市长的媒介化版本既依赖于她的女性气质，也受其限制。在阅读名人研究和我们与公众人物的中介关系的报道中，我认为这是全球媒体和政治格局的一部分，通过诉诸个性来构建政治家，并在某些媒体中以传记而不是政策为前景。我研究了当一位女性政治家寻求自主的政治权力和持续的激进主义时，新自由主义后女权主义的（矛盾的）话语受到挑战的方式，这有可能破坏最初“授予”她这个平台的新自由主义政治。我将使用这部纪录片作为案例研究，并检查它试图抵消或反驳艾达·科劳的这种限制性观点，这种观点以她的性别和母性为突出，但这样做将她的女性气质确立为她持续政治成功的关键因素。