Indiscreet Fantasies

ANDRÉS LEMA-HINCAPIÉ is an associate professor of Ibero-American literatures and cultures at the University of Colorado Denver. He has authored and co-edited numerous scholarly volumes, including Burning Darkness: A Half Century of Spanish Cinema and Despite All Adversities: Spanish-American Queer Cinema.CONXITA DOMÈNECH is an associate professor of Iberian cultures and literatures at the University of Wyoming. Her publications include Letras hispánicas en la gran pantalla: De la literatura al cine and Saberes con sabor: Culturas hispánicas a través de la cocina, both with Andrés Lema-Hincapié.

• List of IllustrationsIntroductionAndrés Lema-Hincapié and Conxita DomènechPart I: Into the Realm of Sexual ProvocationsChapter 1: The Queer Gothic Regime of Narciso Ibáñez Serrador's La residencia (1970)Ann DaviesChapter 2: A Queer Path to "Normal": Pablo Berger's Torremolinos 73 (2003)Meredith Lyn JeffersPart II: Queer Intimacy—Within the HouseholdChapter 3: Turning Around Altogether: Gyrodynamics, Family Fantasies, and Spinnin' (2007), by Eusebio PastranaNina L. MolinaroChapter 4: Framing Queer Desire: The Construction of Teenage Sexuality in Krámpack (2000), by Cesc GayAna CorbalánChapter 5: Bridging Sexualities: Polyamory, Art, and Temporary Space in Castillos de cartón (2009), by Salvador García RuizJennifer BradyPart III: Queering Iberian PoliticsChapter 6: Eloy de la Iglesia's El diputado (1978): On the Margins of Spanish DemocracyLena Tahmassian  Chapter 7: A Blatant Failure in Francoist Censorship: Jaime de Armiñán's Mi querida señorita (1971)Conxita DomènechChapter 8: Social Danger and Queer Nationalism in Ignacio Vilar's A esmorga (2014)Darío Sánchez GonzálezChapter 9: A Basque-Themed Film and the Performativity of Identity in Roberto Castón's Ander (2009)Ibon IzurietaPart IV: Queer Catalonia—Destroying Essential RepresentationsChapter 10: The Barbarians' Inheritance: Memory's Brittleness and Tragic Lucidity in Ventura Pons's Amic/Amat (1998) and Forasters (2008)Joan Ramon ResinaChapter 11: Intertextual Representations and Lesbian Desire in Marta Balletbò-Coll's Sévigné (Júlia Berkowitz) (2004)María Teresa Vera-RojasChapter 12: "Com si fóssim la pesta": Francoism and the Politics of Immunity in Agustí Villaronga's Pa negre (2010)William ViestenzPart V: Burning Counterpoints with ReligiosityChapter 13: Bound and Cut: João Pedro Rodrigues' O ornitólogo (2016)Kelly Moore  Chapter 14: Queering Lisbon in Paulo Rocha's A raíz do coração (2000): Santo António Festivities, Politics, and Drag QueensRui Trindade OliveiraChapter 15: Entre tinieblas (1983): Pedro Almodóvar, a Reformer of Catholicism?Andrés Lema-HincapiéAcknowledgmentsBibliographyIndexNotes on Contributors

"The editors of Indiscreet Fantasies have compiled a significant collection of essays that will be of interest to film scholars because they analyze cinema that sheds a new light on the representations of Iberian cultures and identities."— Isabel Estrada, author of El documental cinematográfico y televisivo contemporáneo"The editors, Andrés Lema-Hincapié and Conxita Domènech, express the wish that the book be useful, especially for students of university courses. This seems to condition the structure of the book, and also the selection of themes that can undoubtedly be of great use for teachers and students on a weekly tour of different aspects of cinema in the Iberian Peninsula."— Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies"Indiscreet Fantasies . . . is a compelling and pedagogical collection of essays written by many different scholars about how Iberian filmmaking portrays issues concerning queer and dissident gender identities and sexualities in recent history."— Revista de Filología y Lingüística de la Universidad de Costa Rica