Spanish Erotic Cinema

Herausgeber: Fouz-Hernandez, Santiago

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

'Through detailed analyses and a wide diversity of theoretical angles, this book provides a rigorous re-examination of the presence and progression of erotic cinema in Spain, acknowledging and celebrating its political and commercial impact in society. It is likely to become an indispensable reference for the study of Spanish cinema.' Isolina Ballesteros, Baruch College and Graduate Center of CUNY 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 many contrasting periods and styles, including the homoerotic '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 in the 1970s. 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, and women and LGBT rights. Covering a wide range of 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. Santiago Fouz-Hernández is Reader in Hispanic Studies at Durham University. Cover image: Isabel Pisano in Bilbao (dir. Bigas Luna, 1978). Video Mercury Films, S.A.U., 2013 Cover design: Christian Mieves and Stuart Dalziel [EUP logo] edinburghuniversitypress.com ISBN 978-1-4744-0047-3 Barcode

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. April 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9781474400473
• ISBN-10: 1474400477
• Artikelnr.: 43757713

Autorenporträt

Santiago Fouz-Hernández is Reader in Hispanic Studies at Durham University.

Inhaltsangabe

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.