Queer obscenity

• Verfasst von: Fernández-Galeano, Javier [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Queer obscenity
• Titelzusatz: erotic archives in dictatorial Spain
• Verf.angabe: Javier Fernández-Galeano
• Verlagsort: Stanford, California
• Verlag: Stanford University Press
• E-Jahr: 2024
• Jahr: [2024]
• Umfang: x, 269 Seiten
• Illustrationen: Illustrationen
• Fussnoten: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 978-1-5036-3875-4
• ISBN: 978-1-5036-3950-8
• Schlagwörter: (g)Spanien / (s)Homosexualität / (s)Zensur / (z)Geschichte 1923-1980
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Fernández Galeano, Javier: Queer obscenity. - Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2024
• Sach-SW: 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000
• Sach-SW: Gay & Lesbian studies
• Sach-SW: HISTORY / Social History
• Sach-SW: LGBTQ+ Studien / Themen
• Sach-SW: SOC064000
• Sach-SW: Social & cultural history
• Sach-SW: Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte
• Geograph. SW: Spain
• Geograph. SW: Spanien
• Zeit-SW: 20. Jahrhundert (ca. 1900 bis ca. 1999)
• Zeit-SW: 20th century
• K10plus-PPN: 1885891857

Abstract

"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 Fernández 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"--