Homoerotic Desire in Contemporary Spanish Cinema: from Pedro Almodóvar to Ventura Pons

The Spanish cinema of the last decades has some directors who have worked on the expression of sexuality, as a form of expression of human relations. Works by directors such as the award-winning Pedro Almodóvar or Ventura Pons are examples of how homoerotic feeling expressed on the big screen.

Santiago Fouz Hernández is Professor in Hispanic Studies and Film Studies at Durham University, where he has been based since 1999. He is the author of Cuerpos de cine (Bellaterra, 2013), co-author (with Alfredo Martínez-Expósito) of Live Flesh: The Male Body in Contemporary Spanish Cinema (I. B. Tauris, 2007) and editor of five books including El legado cinematográfico de Bigas Luna (Tirant lo Blanch, 2020), Spanish Erotic Cinema (Edinburgh University Press, 2017) and Mysterious Skin (I. B. Tauris, 2009).