Indiscreet Fantasies: Iberian Queer Cinema

by Andrés Lema-Hincapié (Editor), Conxita Domènech (Editor), Ann Davies (Contribution by), Meredith Lyn Jeffers (Contribution by), Nina L Molinaro (Contribution by)

Overview

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.


 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781684482467
Publisher:	Bucknell University Press
Publication date:	11/13/2020
Series:	Campos Ibéricos: Bucknell Studies in Iberian Literatures and Cultures
Pages:	316
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.90(d)
Age Range:	16 - 18 Years

About the Author

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.
 

Table of Contents

Introduction Andrés Lema-Hincapié Conxita Domènech 1

Part I Into the Realm of Sexual Provocations

1 The Queer Gothic Regime of Narciso Ibáñez Serrador's La residencia (1969) Ann Davies 21

2 A Queer Path to "Normal": Pablo Berger's Torremolinos 73 (2003) Meredith Lyn Jeffers 35

Part II Queer Intimacy: Within the Household

3 Turning Around Altogether: Gyrodynamics, Family Fantasies, and Spinnin' (2007) by Eusebio Pastrana Nina L. Molinaro 53

4 Framing Queer Desire: The Construction of Teenage Sexuality in Krámpack (2000) by Cesc Gay Ana Corbalán 67

5 Bridging Sexualities: Polyamory, Art, and Temporary Space in Castillos de cartón (2009) by Salvador García Ruiz Jennifer Brady 79

Part III Queering Iberian Politics

6 Eloy de la Iglesia's El diputado (1978): On the Margins of Spanish Democracy Lena Tahmassian 93

7 A Blatant Failure in Francoist Censorship: Jaime de Armiñán's Mi querida señorita (1971) Conxita Domènech 107

8 Social Danger and Queer Nationalism in Ignacio Vilar's A esmorga (2014) Darío Sánchez González 121

9 Gay Basque Men and the Unveiling of a Progressive Family Order in Roberto Castón's Ander (2009) Ibon Izurieta 138

Part IV Queer Catalonia: Destroying Essential Representations

10 The Barbarians' Inheritance: Memory's Brittleness and Tragic Lucidity in Ventura Pons's Amic/Amat (1998) and Forasters (2008) Joan Ramon Resina 153

11 Intertextual Representations and Lesbian Desire in Marta Balletbò-Coll's Sévigné (Júlia Berkowitz) (2004) María Teresa Vera-Rojas 168

12 "Com si fóssim la pesta": Francoism and the Politics of Immunity in Agustí Villaronga's Pa negre (2010) William Viestenz 188

Part V Burning Counterpoints with Religiosity

13 Bound and Cut: João Pedro Rodrigues's O ornitólogo (2016) Kelly Moore 207

14 Queering Lisbon in Paulo Rocha's A raíz do coração (2000): Santo António Festivities, Politics, and Drag Queens Rui Trindade Oliveira 223

15 Entre tinieblas (1983): Pedro Almodóvar, a Reformer of Catholicism? Andrés Lema-Hincapié 237

Acknowledgments 261

Filmography 263

Bibliography 265

Notes on Contributors 283

Index 289

Editorial Reviews

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

"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."

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