Spanish Erotic Cinema

ISBN-13: 9781474400473 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 264 str.

Santiago Fouz-Hernandez

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The first comprehensive scholarly study of Spanish erotic cinema, 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.

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Acknowledgements
List of illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: One Hundred Years of Sex.
1. The Colour of Kisses: Eroticism and/as Exoticism in Spanish Film Culture of the 1920s and 30s. Eva Woods-Peiró.
2. Impressions of Africa: Desire, Sublimation, and Looking ‘Otherwise’ in Three Spanish Colonial Films. Brad Epps.
3. The Desarrollismo Years: The Failures of Sexualised Nationhood in 1960’s Spain. Annabel Martín.
4. Sexual Horror Stories: The Eroticisation of Spanish Horror Film (1969-1975). Antonio Lázaro-Reboll.
5. Undressing Opus Dei: Reframing the Political Currency of Destape Films. Jorge Pérez.
6. Middlebrow Erotic: Didactic Cinema in the Transition to Democracy. Sally Faulkner.
7. Revisiting Bigas Luna’s Bilbao: the Female Body-Object. Carolina Sanabria.
8. The Male Body in the Spanish Erotic Films of the 1980s. Alejandro Melero.
9. Sonorous Flesh: The Visual and Aural Erotics of Skin in Eloy de la Iglesia’s Quinqui Films. Tom Whittaker.
10. Masochistic Nationalism and the Basque Imaginary. Rob Stone.
11. Erotohistoriography, Temporal Drag and the Interstitial Spaces of Childhood in Spanish Cinema. Sarah Wright.
12. Sex After Fifty: The ‘Invisible’ Female Ageing Body in Spanish Women-Authored Cinema. Barbara Zecchi.
13. Boys Interrupted: Sex between Men in post-Franco Spanish Cinema. Santiago Fouz-Hernández.