Gustavo Subero

Queer Masculinities in Latin American Cinema

Male Bodies and Narrative Representations
Herausgeber: Ross, Julian; Nagib, Lúcia

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Produktbeschreibung

Gustavo Subero offers an assessment of the influence, importance and impact of a body of films from the mid 1970s to date that, he argues, constitute a Latin American Queer Cinema. Gustavo Subero addresses major issues surrounding homosexuality in different Latin American societies, starting with the notions of gender and sexuality that are paramount in the construction of queer subjects in these regions. He explores questions of male effeminacy and how the maricon has become synonymous with homosexuality in the popular imaginary, suggesting how this stereotype might be reclaimed as authentic. He also analyses issues of masculine homosexuality in a series of films in which the main protagonists do not correspond to the previous stereotype, such as La leon and the work of Julian Hernandez, considering as he does so the closet and passing as hetero, as well as notions of hetero-patriarchy and masculinity. He also illuminates the way in which the male body structures, organises and redirects notions of queer masculinity in Latin America while it also demonstrates the importance of filmmaking in societies in which homosexuality may be repressed to guarantee the circulation of queer narratives (and experiences) among gay subjects.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 223mm x 141mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 467g
• ISBN-13: 9781780763200
• ISBN-10: 1780763204
• Artikelnr.: 37631140

Autorenporträt

Gustavo Subero is a researcher in Latin American and Caribbean Cultural Studies and has taught Latin American and Hispanic Studies at Coventry University, the University of Durham and the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. He has published on issues pertaining to sexual cultures in these regions in journals such as Studies in Hispanic Cinemas, Journal of Sexualities and Culture, Bulletin of Latin American Research and Latin American Research Review.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Preface On contemporary Latin
American homosexuality Latin America as a coherent (homo)sexual territory?
On machismo in Latin America The construction of masculinity in Latin
America Filming Latin American homosexuality Queer filmic production in
Latin America 2. Depicting mariconería: Stereotypical representations of
male homosexuality in contemporary fiction cinema Designing material
mariconería: Kiss of the Spider Woman Flavour queens: Fresa y chocolate
De/constructing man-iconería: Más que un hombre 3. Unwritten on the body:
an analysis of masculine-looking homosexuality There's no place like the
closet: Jaime Humberto Hermosillo's Doña Herlinda y su hijo and
eXXXorcismos Dangerous liaisons: Constructing proto macho gay 4. Where gay
meets race: Images of Indo-mestizo homosexuality in the work of Julián
Hernández Mexican filmic images of queer Indo-mestizo identity Julian
Hernández's Indo-mestizo bodies 5. Depicting cross-dressing in contemporary
Latin American fiction cinema Transgender representations in fiction cinema
El lugar sin límites Simón el gran varón Madame Satã 6. No machos were
harmed in the making of this film: Defining queer masculinity through gay
pornography in the work by Mecos Films. Mecos Films Notes Filmography
Bibliography Index