Spanish Erotic Cinema

Santiago Fouz-Hernández is Professor in Hispanic Studies at Durham University. He is the author of Cuerpos de cine (2013) and, with Alfredo Martínez-Expósito, Live Flesh. The Male Body in Contemporary Spanish Cinema (2007). He is also editor of Mysterious Skin. Male Bodies in Contemporary Cinema (2009), co-editor of two other volumes and editorial board member of Studies in Spanish and Latin American Cinemas. Currently he is preparing a monograph on Spanish filmmaker Bigas Luna.

• AcknowledgementsList of illustrationsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: 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.

Santiago Fouz-Hernández’s edited collection on Spanish erotic cinema is a timely and ground-breaking contribution to the field of Spanish film studies in particular, and Film Studies in general, through its coverage of the ‘erotic content in Spanish cinema from the silent period until today.