Indiscreet Fantasies

Pedro Almodvar may have helped put queer Iberian cinema on the map, but there are multitudes of LGBTQ filmmakers from Catalonia, Portugal, Castile, Galicia, and the Basque Country who have made the Peninsula one of the worlds most vital sources for queer film. Together, they have produced a cinema whose expressions of queer desire have challenged the regions conservative religious and family values, while intervening in vital debates about politics, history, and nation. Indiscreet Fantasies is a unique collection that offers in-depth analyses of fifteen different films produced in the region over the past fifty years, each by a different director, from Narciso Ibez Serradors La residencia (The House That Screamed, 1969) to Joo Pedro Rodriguess O ornitlogo (The Ornithologist, 2016). Contributors examine how queer Iberian cinema has responded to historical traumafrom the AIDS crisis to the repressive and homophobic Franco regimeand explore how these films demonstrate a fluid understanding of sexuality, gender, and national identity. The result will give readers a new appreciation for the cultural diversity of Iberia and the richness of its thought-provoking queer cinema. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.