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Indiscreet Fantasies
Iberian Queer Cinema
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2021
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.
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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.
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.
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“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."
— Isabel Estrada, author of El documental cinematográfico y televisivo contemporáneoTopics
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Introduction
1 - Part I. Into the Realm of Sexual Provocations
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1. The Queer Gothic Regime of Narciso Ibáñez Serrador’s La residencia (1969)
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2. A Queer Path to “Normal”
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3. Turning Around Altogether
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4. Framing Queer Desire
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5. Bridging Sexualities
79 - Part III. Queering Iberian Politics
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6. Eloy de la Iglesia’s El diputado (1978)
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7. A Blatant Failure in Francoist Censorship
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8. Social Danger and Queer Nationalism in Ignacio Vilar’s A esmorga (2014)
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9. Gay Basque Men and the Unveiling of a Progressive Family Order in Roberto Castón’s Ander (2009)
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10. The Barbarians’ Inheritance
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11. Intertextual Representations and Lesbian Desire in Marta Balletbò-Coll’s Sévigné (Júlia Berkowitz) (2004)
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12. “Com si fóssim la pesta”
188 - Part V. Burning Counterpoints with Religiosity
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13. Bound and Cut
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14. Queering Lisbon in Paulo Rocha’s A raíz do coração (2000)
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15. Entre tinieblas (1983)
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Acknowledgments
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Filmography
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Bibliography
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Notes on Contributors
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Index
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Publishing information
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
June 7, 2021
eBook ISBN:
9781684482504
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eBook ISBN:
9781684482504
Keywords for this book
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
Audience(s) for this book
For a non-specialist adult audience
