Sex and Ethics in Spanish Cinema

Reflecting on a series of ethical and moral questions significant to contemporary Spanish culture, Cristina Sánchez-Conejero analyzes several issues related to sexuality in gender as they're portrayed Spanish film.

Autorentext

Cristina Sánchez-Conejero is an Associate Professor of Spanish at the University of North Texas, USA. She is the author of such books as Identidades españolas? Literatura y cine de la globalización (1980-2000) (2006), and Spanishness in the Spanish Novel and Cinema of the 20th-21st Century (2007), as well as over twenty articles published in such journals as Bulletin of Spanish Studies and Revista Hispánica Moderna. She directed, wrote, and produced the award-winning film Hispanosophy (2011).

Inhalt
Introduction

1. Fidelity: A Motion Picture Myth?
2. Pornography and its Discontents
3. How Much? Prostitution and its Social Repercussions
4. LGBT: The Reality, the Fiction, and the Faction
5. Ethics and Law: A Happy Marriage or a Dysfunctional Relationship?
   Conclusion