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Queer Obscenity: Erotic Archives in Dictatorial Spain

Queer Obscenity: Erotic Archives in Dictatorial Spain

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General World HistorySpainish & Portuguese History

ISBN10: 1503638758
ISBN13: 9781503638754
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: Jul 16 2024
Pages: 282
Weight: 1.27
Height: 0.91 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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.

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