Despite All Adversities

Andrés Lema-Hincapié is Associate Professor of Ibero-American Literatures and Cultures at the University of Colorado Denver. He is the coeditor (with Conxita Domènech) of Pedro Calderón de la Barca's La vida es sueño: Philosophical Crossroads, and the assistant editor of Burning Darkness: A Half Century of Spanish Cinema (edited by Joan Ramon Resina), also published by SUNY Press. Debra A. Castillo is Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow, Emerson Hinchliff Professor of Hispanic Studies, and Professor of Comparative Literature at Cornell University. Her many books include Redreaming America: Toward a Bilingual American Culture, also published by SUNY Press.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionAndrés Lema-Hincapié and Debra A. CastilloPart I. Queer Subjectivity, Desire, and Eroticism 1. Queer Couples in Señora de Nadie (María Luisa Bemberg, 1982)David William Foster2. Fresa y chocolate: The Allure of Passions and Controversies (Tomás Gutiérrez Alea and Juan Carlos Tabío, 1993)Cristina Venegas3. A Gaynster Quasi-Tragedy: Eroticism and Secrets in Plata quemada (Marcelo Piñeyro, 2000)Andrès Lema-Hincapié4. Pathology, Poetry and Pleasure: HIV/AIDS, Confessional Writing and S/M in Un año sin amor (Anahí Berneri, 2005)Robert Deam TobinPart II. Gay Authorship—Queer Agency and Spectatorship 5. La venganza del sexo: The Curious Mutation from Horror Fantasy into Sexploitation Film (Emilio Vieyra, 1967)Esteve Riambau6. Inside-Out: A Socio-Spatial Reading of Mecánicas celestes (Fina Torres, 1995)Cecelia Burke Lawless7. La Virgen de los Sicarios: From Novel to Film (Barbet Schroeder, 2000)Óscar Osorio8. A Case Study in Transnational Gay Auteurism: Mil nubes de paz cercan el cielo (Julián Hernández, 2004)Paul Julian Smith9. Haunted: XXY (Lucía Puenzo, 2007)Debra A. CastilloPart III. Bisexuality Experiences and Lesbian Identities 10. Excluded Middle? Bisexuality in Doña Herlinda y su hijo (Jaime Humberto Hermosillo, 1985)Daniel Balderston11. The Construction of the Bisexual Subject in No se lo digas a nadie (Francisco Lombardi, 1998)Alfredo J. Sosa-Velasco12. Lesbians Made in Mexico: Sexual Diversity and Transnational FluxesMaría de la Cruz Castro RicaldePart IV. Queer Relations with Families, Government, and Nation 13. Clothes Make the Man: Closet, Cabaret, Cinema in El lugar sin límites (Arturo Ripstein, 1978)Claudia Schaefer14. Families, Landowners, Servants, and Siblings in La ciénaga (Lucrecia Martel, 2001)David Oubiña15. Mapping Guilt, Betrayal, and Redemption: En la ciudad sin límites (Antonio Hernández, 2002)Chris Perriam16. Ronda nocturna: A Homage to Buenos Aires (Edgardo Cozarinsky, 2005)Dieter IngenschayContributorsIndex of TermsIndex of NamesIndex of Concepts

"…a handsome volume of essays by some of the most well-respected experts in the discipline." — Hispania"This book is an exciting, thought-provoking introduction to LGBTQ films from Latin America … Highly recommended." — CHOICE