Spanish Erotic Cinema

✍ Scribed by Santiago Fouz-Hernández

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 264
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Spanish Erotic Cinema
Copyright
Contents
Figures
Acknowledgements
Notes on the 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
2 Impressions of Africa: Desire, Sublimation and Looking ‘Otherwise’ in Three Spanish Colonial Films
3 The Desarrollismo Years: The Failures of Sexualised Nationhood in 1960s Spain
4 Sexual Horror Stories: The Eroticisation of Spanish Horror Film (1969-75)
5 Undressing Opus Dei: Reframing the Political Currency of Destape Films
6 Middlebrow Erotic: Didactic Cinema in the Transition to Democracy
7 Revisiting Bigas Luna’s Bilbao: the Female Body-Object
8 The Male Body in the Spanish Erotic Films of the 1980s
9 Sonorous Flesh: The Visual and Aural Erotics of Skin in Eloy de la Iglesia’s Quinqui Films
10 Masochistic Nationalism and the Basque Imaginary
11 Erotohistoriography, Temporal Drag and the Interstitial Spaces of Childhood in Spanish Cinema
12 Sex After Fifty: The ‘Invisible’ Female Ageing Body in Spanish Women-authored Cinema
13 Boys Interrupted: Sex between Men in post-Franco Spanish Cinema
Index