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    Indiscreet Fantasies
    Iberian Queer Cinema

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

    9781684482474

    Hardback, published 13 November 2020

    316 pages, 20 color images, 1 table
    22.9 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm, 0.472 kg

    "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

    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.


     


    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
     
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