Spanish Erotic Cinema

Santiago Fouz-Hernandez

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2017

Spanish Erotic Cinema

Santiago Fouz-Hernandez

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474400480

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About this book

The first comprehensive scholarly study of Spanish erotic cinema, from the 1920s until the present day

This book covers a significant part of the history of Spanish film, from the 1920s until the present day. Starting with a study of the kiss in silent films, the volume explores homoerotic narratives in the crusade films of the 1940s, the commodification of bodies in the late Franco period, and the so-called destape (literally ‘undressing’) period that followed the abolition of censorship during the democratic transition.

Reclaiming the importance of Spanish erotic cinema as a genre in itself, a range of international scholars demonstrate how the explicit depiction of sex can be a useful tool to illuminate current and historic social issues including ageism, colonialism, domestic violence, immigration, nationalisms, or women and LGBT rights. Covering a wide range of cinematic genres, including comedy, horror and melodrama, this book provides an innovative and provocative overview of Spanish cinema history and society in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Contributors

Brad Epps, Cambridge University
Sally Faulkner, University of Exeter
Santiago Fouz-Hernández, Durham University
Antonio Lázaro-Reboll, University of Kent
Annabel Martín, Dartmouth College
Alejandro Melero Salvador, Universidad Carlos III in Madrid
Jorge Pérez, University of Texas, Austin
Carolina Sanabria, University of Costa Rica
Rob Stone, University of Birmingham
Tom Whittaker, University of Liverpool
Eva Woods Peiró, Vassar College
Sarah Wright, Royal Holloway, University of London
Barbara Zecchi, University of Massachusetts Amherst

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Figures Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Notes on the Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Introduction: One Hundred Years of Sex Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1 The Colour of Kisses: Eroticism and Exoticism in Spanish Film Culture of the 1920s and ’30s Eva Woods Peiró Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
2 Impressions of Africa: Desire, Sublimation and Looking ‘Otherwise’ in Three Spanish Colonial Films Brad Epps Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
3 The Desarrollismo Years: The Failures of Sexualised Nationhood in 1960s Spain Annabel Martín Annabel Martín Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	55
4 Sexual Horror Stories: The Eroticisation of Spanish Horror Film (1969–75) Antonio Lázaro Reboll Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	74
5 Undressing Opus Dei: Reframing the Political Currency of Destape Films Jorge Pérez Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	92
6 Middlebrow Erotic: Didactic Cinema in the Transition to Democracy Sally Faulkner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
7 Revisiting Bigas Luna’s Bilbao: The Female Body-Object Carolina Sanabria Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	125
8 The Male Body in the Spanish Erotic Films of the 1980s Alejandro Melero Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
9 Sonorous Flesh: The Visual and Aural Erotics of Skin in Eloy de la Iglesia’s Quinqui Films Tom Whittaker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	154
10 Masochistic Nationalism and the Basque Imaginary Rob Stone Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
11 Erotohistoriography, Temporal Drag and the Interstitial Spaces of Childhood in Spanish Cinema Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	187
12 Sex After Fifty: The ‘Invisible’ Female Ageing Body in Spanish Women-authored Cinema Barbara Zecchi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	202
13 Boys Interrupted: Sex between Men in Post-Franco Spanish Cinema Santiago Fouz Hernández Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	219
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	239

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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 264
Illustrations
- Other: 30 colour illustrations
Keywords: Film, Media & Cultural Studies

eBook

Published: April 13, 2017
ISBN: 9781474400480