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Offering in-depth analyses of fifteen different queer films from the Iberian Peninsula, this collection shows how a diverse group of filmmakers from regions including Catalonia, Portugal, Castile, Galicia, and the Basque Country have produced films that challenge the region’s conservative religious values and gender norms, while intervening in vital debates about politics, history, and nation.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
List of Illustrations
Introduction
Andrés Lema-Hincapié and Conxita Domènech
Part I: Into the Realm of Sexual Provocations
Chapter 1: The Queer Gothic Regime of Narciso Ibáñez Serrador's La residencia (1970)
Ann Davies
Chapter 2: A Queer Path to "Normal": Pablo Berger's Torremolinos 73 (2003)
Meredith Lyn Jeffers
Part II: Queer Intimacy-Within the Household
Chapter 3: Turning Around Altogether: Gyrodynamics, Family Fantasies, and Spinnin' (2007), by Eusebio Pastrana
Nina L. Molinaro
Chapter 4: Framing Queer Desire: The Construction of Teenage Sexuality in Krámpack (2000), by Cesc Gay
Ana Corbalán
Chapter 5: Bridging Sexualities: Polyamory, Art, and Temporary Space in Castillos de cartón (2009), by Salvador García Ruiz
Jennifer Brady
Part III: Queering Iberian Politics
Chapter 6: Eloy de la Iglesia's El diputado (1978): On the Margins of Spanish Democracy
Lena Tahmassian
Chapter 7: A Blatant Failure in Francoist Censorship: Jaime de Armiñán's Mi querida señorita (1971)
Conxita Domènech
Chapter 8: Social Danger and Queer Nationalism in Ignacio Vilar's A esmorga (2014)
Darío Sánchez González
Chapter 9: A Basque-Themed Film and the Performativity of Identity in Roberto Castón's Ander (2009)
Ibon Izurieta
Part IV: Queer Catalonia-Destroying Essential Representations
Chapter 10: The Barbarians' Inheritance: Memory's Brittleness and Tragic Lucidity in Ventura Pons's Amic/Amat (1998) and Forasters (2008)
Joan Ramon Resina
Chapter 11: Intertextual Representations and Lesbian Desire in Marta Balletbò-Coll's Sévigné (Júlia Berkowitz) (2004)
María Teresa Vera-Rojas
Chapter 12: "Com si fóssim la pesta": Francoism and the Politics of Immunity in Agustí Villaronga's Pa negre (2010)
William Viestenz
Part V: Burning Counterpoints with Religiosity
Chapter 13: Bound and Cut: João Pedro Rodrigues' O ornitólogo (2016)
Kelly Moore
Chapter 14: Queering Lisbon in Paulo Rocha's A raíz do coração (2000): Santo António Festivities, Politics, and Drag Queens
Rui Trindade Oliveira
Chapter 15: Entre tinieblas (1983): Pedro Almodóvar, a Reformer of Catholicism?
Andrés Lema-Hincapié
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Index
Notes on Contributors
Über den Autor / die Autorin
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.
Zusammenfassung
A unique collection that offers in-depth analyses of fifteen different films, each by a different director, produced in Iberian Peninsula over the past fifty years. Together, they show how queer Iberian cinema has responded to historical traumas ranging from the AIDS crisis to the repressive and homophobic Franco regime.
