✍ Scribed by Andrés Lema-Hincapié, Debra A. Castillo
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Provides sophisticated theoretical approaches to Latin American cinema and sexual culture.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Meeting the Macho
LGBTQ in Latin America
About this Book
Appendix: Further Readings
Notes
Part I: Queer Subjectivity, Desire, and Eroticism
1. Queer Couples in Señora de Nadie (María Luisa Bemberg, 1982)
Notes
Works Cited
2. Fresa y chocolate: The Allure of Passions and Controversies (Tomás Gutiérrez Alea and Juan Carlos Tabío, 1993)
No Stranger to Critique
The Fragile Culture of Critical Engagement
Persuasions of Melodrama
Reality in Counterpoint
Watershed Film
Notes
Works Cited
3. A Gaynster Quasi-Tragedy: Eroticism and Secrets in Plata quemada (Marcelo Piñeyro, 2000)
Greek Tragedy and the Reviews
Piñeyro’s Cinematography
Oscillating Desire in the Plot
The Sexual Dynamic of the Male Bodies
Obstacles of an Oscillating Eros
Notes
Works Cited
4. Pathology, Poetry, and Pleasure: HIV/AIDS, Confessional Writing, and S/M in Un año sin amor (Anahí Berneri, 2005)
Mise en abîme
Argentina at the Turn of the Millennium
Argentina’s Queerness from a Global Perspective
The Global Cinema of HIV/AIDS
Medicine and Literature
Poetry: Pablo Neruda/Pablo Pérez
Pablo’s Writings: Poetry and Personals
Pablo’s Writing: Poetry and the Diary
Leather and Masochism
Conclusion
Notes
Works Cited
Part II: Gay Authorship—Queer Agency and Spectatorship
5. La venganza del sexo: The Curious Mutation from Horror Fantasy into Sexploitation Film (Emilio Vieyra, 1967)
Crime Thriller and Horror Fantasy
The Mad Doctor and His Henchmen
The Journalist as Voyeur
Double Versions
Notes
Works Cited
6. Inside-Out: A Socio-Spatial Reading of Mecánicas celestes (Fina Torres, 1995)
Inside the Box
Outside the Box
Reinventing the Box
Notes
Works Cited
7. La Virgen de los Sicarios: From Novel to Film (Barbet Schroeder, 2000)
Notes
Works Cited
8.
A Case Study in Transnational Gay Auteurism: Mil nubes de paz cercan el cielo, amor, jamás acabarás de ser amor (Julián Hernández, 2004)
Notes
Works Cited
9. Haunted: XXY (Lucía Puenzo, 2007)
Notes
Works Cited
Part III: Bisexuality Experiences and Lesbian Identities
10. Excluded Middle? Bisexuality in Doña Herlinda y su hijo (Jaime Humberto Hermosillo, 1984)
Notes
Works Cited
11. The Construction of the Bisexual Subject in No se lo digas a nadie (Francisco Lombardi, 1998)
Works Cited
12. Lesbians Made in Mexico: Sexual Diversity and Transnational Fluxes
Made in Mexico
Female Homosexuality: An Irreparable Evil
All Inclusive in the Mexican Caribbean
Unified Perceptions in a Transnational frame
Ad hoc Products for International Audiences
Notes
Works Cited
Part IV: Queer Relations with Families
13. Clothes Make the Man: Closet, Cabaret, Cinema in El lugar sin límites (Arturo Ripstein, 1977)
Works Cited
14. Families, Landowners, Servants, and Siblings in La ciénaga (Lucrecia Martel, 2001)
Swampy Scenes and Ambiguous Boundaries
Boggy Symbiosis: Affection and Contempt; Attraction and Repulsion
Mired: Passengers on a Sinking Ship
Notes
Works Cited
15. Mapping Guilt, Betrayal, and Redemption: En la ciudad sin límites (Antonio Hernández, 2002)
Star Memories
Memoria histórica; Queer History
Place and Cinematic Space
Notes
Works Cited
16. Ronda nocturna: A Homage to Buenos Aires (Edgardo Cozarinsky
Buenos Aires: Its Places and Its People
The Aesthetics of the “Indirect Cinema”
Sociohistorical Implications
Ronda nocturna in the Context of Gay Cinema
Buenos Aires and Its Young Gay Men
Notes
Works Cited
Contributors
Index of Terms
Index of Names
Index of Concepts
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