Despite all adversities : Spanish-American adversities queer cinema / / edited by Andrés Lema-Hincapié and Debra A. Castillo ; contributors, Daniel Balderston [and fifteen others]

• Pubblicazione: Albany, New York : , : SUNY Press, , 2015; ©2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (322 p.)
• Disciplina: 791.43/652968073
• Soggetto topico: Hispanic Americans in the motion picture industry; Homosexuality in motion pictures; Gay people in motion pictures
• Persona (resp. second.): Lema-HincapiéAndrés; CastilloDebra A.; BalderstonDaniel
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Meeting the Macho -- LGBTQ in Latin America -- About this Book -- Appendix: Further Readings -- Notes -- Part I: Queer Subjectivity, Desire, and Eroticism -- 1. Queer Couples in Seaora de Nadie (María Luisa Bemberg, 1982) -- 2. Fresa y chocolate: The Allure of Passions and Controversies (Tomás Gutiérrez Alea and Juan Carlos Tabío, 1993) -- 3. A Gaynster Quasi-Tragedy: Eroticism and Secrets in Plata quemada (Marcelo Piñeyro, 2000) Greek Tragedy and the Reviews -- 4. Pathology, Poetry, and Pleasure: HIV/AIDS, Confessional Writing, and S/M in Un año sin amor (Anahí Berneri, 2005) -- Part II: Gay Authorship-Queer Agency and Spectatorship -- 5. La venganza del sexo: The Curious Mutation from Horror Fantasy into Sexploitation Film (Emilio Vieyra, 1967) -- 6. Inside-Out: A Socio-Spatial Reading of Mecanicas celestes (Fina Torres, 1995) -- 7. La Virgen de los Sicarios: From Novel to Film (Barbet Schroeder, 2000) Notes -- 8. A Case Study in Transnational Gay Auteurism: Mil nubes de paz cercan el cielo, amor, jamás acabarás de ser amor (Julián Hernández, 2004) -- 9. Haunted: XXY (Lucía Puenzo, 2007) -- Part III: Bisexuality Experiences and Lesbian Identities -- 10. Excluded Middle? Bisexuality in Doña Herlinda y su hijo (Jaime Humberto Hermosillo, 1984) -- 11. The Construction of the Bisexual Subject in No se lo digas a nadie (Francisco Lombardi, 1998) -- 12. Lesbians Made in Mexico: Sexual Diversity and Transnational Fluxes -- Part IV: Queer Relations with Families -- 13. Clothes Make the Man: Closet, Cabaret, Cinema in El lugar sin límites (Arturo Ripstein, 1977) -- 14. Families, Landowners, Servants, and Siblings in La ciénaga (Lucrecia Martel, 2001) -- 15. Mapping Guilt, Betrayal, and Redemption: En la ciudad sin límites (Antonio Hernández, 2002) -- 16. Ronda nocturna: A Homage to Buenos Aires (Edgardo Cozarinsky -- Contributors-- Indexes.
• Sommario/riassunto: examines a representative selection of notable queer films by Spanish America's most important directors since the 1950s. Each chapter focuses on a single film and offers rich and thoughtful new interpretations by a prominent scholar. The book explores films from across the region. A survey of recent lesbian-themed Mexican films is also included.
• Titolo autorizzato: Despite all adversities
• ISBN: 1-4384-5912-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910818110603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Genders in the global south.