Indiscreet Fantasies: Iberian Queer Cinema

Published by Bucknell University Press 2021

Indiscreet Fantasies

Iberian Queer Cinema

Edited by: Andrés Lema-Hincapié and Conxita Domènech
With contributions by: Ann Davies , Meredith Lyn Jeffers , Nina L Molinaro , Ana Corbalán , Jennifer Brady , Darío Sánchez González , Ibon Izurieta , Joan Ramon Resina , María Teresa Vera-Rojas , William Viestenz , Kelly Moore and Rui Trindade Oliveira

In the series Campos Ibéricos: Bucknell Studies in Iberian Literatures and Cultures

https://doi.org/10.36019/9781684482504

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About this book

Pedro Almodóvar may have helped put queer Iberian cinema on the map, but there are multitudes of LGBTQ filmmakers from Catalonia, Portugal, Castile, Galicia, and the Basque Country who have made the Peninsula one of the world’s most vital sources for queer film. Together, they have produced a cinema whose expressions of queer desire have challenged the region’s conservative religious and family values, while intervening in vital debates about politics, history, and nation. Indiscreet Fantasies is a unique collection that offers in-depth analyses of fifteen different films produced in the region over the past fifty years, each by a different director, from Narciso Ibáñez Serrador’s La residencia (The House That Screamed, 1969) to João Pedro Rodrigues’s O ornitólogo (The Ornithologist, 2016). Contributors examine how queer Iberian cinema has responded to historical trauma—from the AIDS crisis to the repressive and homophobic Franco regime—and explore how these films demonstrate a fluid understanding of sexuality, gender, and national identity. The result will give readers a new appreciation for the cultural diversity of Iberia and the richness of its thought-provoking queer cinema.

Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

Author / Editor information

ANDRÉS LEMA-HINCAPIÉ is an associate professor of Ibero-American literatures and cultures at the University of Colorado Denver. He has authored and co-edited numerous scholarly volumes, including Burning Darkness: A Half Century of Spanish Cinema and Despite All Adversities: Spanish-American Queer Cinema.

CONXITA DOMÈNECH is an associate professor of Iberian cultures and literatures at the University of Wyoming. Her publications include Letras hispánicas en la gran pantalla: De la literatura al cine and Saberes con sabor: Culturas hispánicas a través de la cocina, both with Andrés Lema-Hincapié.

Reviews

"The editors of Indiscreet Fantasies have compiled a significant collection of essays that will be of interest to film scholars because they analyze cinema that sheds a new light on the representations of Iberian cultures and identities."

— Isabel Estrada, author of El documental cinematográfico y televisivo contemporáneo

“The editors, Andrés Lema-Hincapié and Conxita Domènech, express the wish that the book be useful, especially for students of university courses. This seems to condition the structure of the book, and also the selection of themes that can undoubtedly be of great use for teachers and students on a weekly tour of different aspects of cinema in the Iberian Peninsula.”— Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies

“Indiscreet Fantasies . . . is a compelling and pedagogical collection of essays written by many different scholars about how Iberian filmmaking portrays issues concerning queer and dissident gender identities and sexualities in recent history.”— Revista de Filología y Lingüística de la Universidad de Costa Rica

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction Andrés Lema-Hincapié and Conxita Domènech Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I. Into the Realm of Sexual Provocations
1. The Queer Gothic Regime of Narciso Ibáñez Serrador’s La residencia (1969) Ann Davies Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
2. A Queer Path to “Normal” Pablo Berger’s Torremolinos 73 (2003) Meredith Lyn Jeffers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	35
Part II. Queer Intimacy
3. Turning Around Altogether Gyrodynamics, Family Fantasies, and Spinnin’ (2007) by Eusebio Pastrana Nina L. Molinaro Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
4. Framing Queer Desire The Construction of Teenage Sexuality in Krámpack (2000) by Cesc Gay Ana Corbalán Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
5. Bridging Sexualities Polyamory, Art, and Temporary Space in Castillos de cartón (2009) by Salvador García Ruiz Jennifer Brady Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
Part III. Queering Iberian Politics
6. Eloy de la Iglesia’s El diputado (1978) On the Margins of Spanish Democracy Lena Tahmassian Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
7. A Blatant Failure in Francoist Censorship Jaime de Armiñán’s Mi querida señorita (1971) Conxita Domènech Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
8. Social Danger and Queer Nationalism in Ignacio Vilar’s A esmorga (2014) Darío Sánchez González Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
9. Gay Basque Men and the Unveiling of a Progressive Family Order in Roberto Castón’s Ander (2009) Ibon Izurieta Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	138
Part IV. Queer Catalonia
10. The Barbarians’ Inheritance Memory’s Brittleness and Tragic Lucidity in Ventura Pons’s Amic/Amat (1998) and Forasters (2008 Joan Ramon Resina Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
11. Intertextual Representations and Lesbian Desire in Marta Balletbò-Coll’s Sévigné (Júlia Berkowitz) (2004) María Teresa Vera-Rojas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	168
12. “Com si fóssim la pesta” Francoism and the Politics of Immunity in Agustí Villaronga’s Pa negre (2010) William Viestenz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	188
Part V. Burning Counterpoints with Religiosity
13. Bound and Cut João Pedro Rodrigues’s O ornitólogo (2016) Kelly Moore Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
14. Queering Lisbon in Paulo Rocha’s A raíz do coração (2000) Santo António Festivities, Politics, and Drag Queens Rui Trindade Oliveira Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	223
15. Entre tinieblas (1983) Pedro Almodóvar, a Reformer of Catholicism? Andrés Lema-Hincapié Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	237
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	261
Filmography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	265
Notes on Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	283
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	289

Language: English
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Audience: General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 316
Illustrations
- Other: 20 color images, 1 table
Keywords: queer; cinema; LGBTQ; filmmakers; media; film; History; AIDS; Sexuality; Gender; Nationalism; Identity; Cultural diversity; Cultural Studies; Gender Roles; Trauma; Crisis; Franco regime; Intimacy; Art; Polyamory; Politics

eBook

Published: November 13, 2020
ISBN: 9781684482504