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Queer Obscenity: Erotic Archives in Dictatorial Spain

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Availability:In StockContributor:Javier Fern?ndez-GaleanoPublish date:2024-07-16Pages:282
Language:EnglishPublisher:Stanford University PressISBN-13:9781503639508ISBN-10:1503639509UPC:9781503639508Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:LGBTQ+, Europe, ModernBook Topic:Spain, 20th CenturySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.64 inchesWeight:0.9215Product ID:SCVRMYCYY4

Under Spain's twentieth-century dictators, state agents not only censored, eradicated, and attempted to prevent the circulation of obscenity, but also contradictorily engaged in curation and even restoration initiatives that have bequeathed us an extensive queer pornographic archive. Javier Fern?ndez-Galeano takes us inside the archive to demonstrate how the incongruities of the Primo de Rivera (1923-1930) and Franco (1939-1975) regimes were manifested in the regulation of erotic material cultures. The dictators' authorities destroyed "straight" pornographies while often curating and preserving "queer" erotica. While reproductions of the masterpieces of Tintoretto, Michelangelo and Botticelli were incinerated to avoid their "deviant" effects, judicial authorities could repeatedly attend the screening of an amateur film showing a gay threesome without acknowledging the irony: their concern was not that obscene material was consumed, but rather by whom.

Focusing on amateur pornographers and their confiscated and censored erotica, this book adds a rich complexity to both the history and theory of pornography, demonstrating that surveillance depends entirely on documenting intimacy and preserving transgression. This book sheds new light on the production, consumption, and circulation of pornography and erotica in Spain over the course of the twentieth century, drawing connections between intimate queer desires, preservation, and erasure.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Stanford University PressISBN-13:9781503639508ISBN-10:1503639509UPC:9781503639508Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:LGBTQ+, Europe, ModernBook Topic:Spain, 20th CenturySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.64 inchesWeight:0.9215Product ID:SCVRMYCYY4
Javier Fern?ndez-Galeano is Ram?n y Cajal Fellow at the University of Valencia.
Publisher: Stanford University Press

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