Queer Masculinities in Latin American Cinema

Male Bodies and Narrative Representations

Bibliographic Data

ID19912641
AuthorsGustavo Subero (0000-0001-6075-5948, corresponding author)
Year2014
Publication date2014-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueQueer Masculinities in Latin American Cinema (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherI.B.Tauris (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5040/9780755694082
OpenAlexW2591099856
Open LibraryOL26186372M
ISBN9780755694082
LanguageEN
Citations received5

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

Art · Closet · Homosexuality · Human sexuality · Latin Americans · Literature · Masculinity · Movie theater · Patriarchy · Political science · Psychoanalysis · Queer · Sociology · The Imaginary · Cuban History and Society · Gender Studies · History · Latin American and Latino Studies · Latin American Literature Studies · Psychology · Social Psychology · Gay men in motion pictures · History and criticism · Homosexuality in motion pictures · LGBTQ film and television · Motion pictures · Social sciences

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