Queer Obscenity

Erotic Archives in Dictatorial Spain

Javier Fernández-Galeano (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

282 Seiten

2024
Stanford University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5036-3950-8 (ISBN)

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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.

Javier Fernández-Galeano is Ramón y Cajal Fellow at the University of Valencia.

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Reflections in the Mirror: The Politics of Obscenity in Twentieth-Century Spain

1. Curators of Pornography: Scandal and Censorship in Primo de Rivera's Spain (1923–1930)

2. Dildos and Lubricant: Material Culture versus Nationalistic Rhetoric

3. "Plastic Objects of Obscene Configuration": From Ordinary to Extraordinary Legal Framings (1950–1975)

4. Burning the Normal, Preserving the Queer

5. Running Mascara: Trans Visual Archives in the 1970s

6. "Frosted Glass": The Sexual Politics of the Democratic Transition

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Erscheinungsdatum	04.07.2024
Zusatzinfo	1 figure, 15 halftones
Verlagsort	Palo Alto
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-5036-3950-9 / 1503639509
ISBN-13	978-1-5036-3950-8 / 9781503639508
Zustand	Neuware