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El papel homosexual del cine de Pedro Almodóvar durante la movida madrileña = The role of homosexuality in the films of Pedro Almodóvar during the Movida
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Silverthorne, Spencer |
| Copyright Year | 2005 |
| Abstract | When I first arrived in Spain, I wanted to conduct my Independent Study Project on the relationship between machismo and homosexuality, and how these lifestyles were represented in the arts throughout Spanish history. Ideally, I would have liked to study the foundation of machismo, and how it was realized and enforced upon the Spanish people and culture, especially during the regime of Francisco Franco. Then, I would have liked to contrast that movement with the portrayal and the image of the homosexuality community, exhibiting how that broke such a traditionalist belief system. The reason why this subject fascinated me was that I was allured by the films of Pedro Almodóvar, who I believed played a major role in subverting the repressive constructs of Francoism and machismo by instigating a major change that eventually proved to be beneficial for the GLBT community. Also, I would have like to included some analysis of the poetry from the Generation ’27, especially Federico Garcia Lorca, to explain how these poets subtly materialized their (homo)sexual desires, despite the rise of the impending dictatorship and the religious mentality of the Spanish people. However, such a project would require more than a mere month, and above all, appeared to be too broad-based for any proper in-depth investigation. Therefore, I decided that I would focus on the period of Transition, the period of time after Franco’s death and the arrival of the Constitution (and above all, the legalization of homosexuality in 1977. This is where Pedro Almodóvar enters the scene. At the start of his career, Almodóvar directed films that provoked and challenged the conservative and outright ignorant mentality from the past forty years of fascist and ultra-catholic dictatorship. In |
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| Language | English |
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