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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
Spencer Silverthorne
SIT Study Abroad

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El papel homosexual del cine de Pedro Almodóvar
durante la movidamadrileña.
The role of homosexuality in the films of Pedro Almodóvar during the Movida

Spencer Silverthorne
School of International Training
Cultural Landscapes and the Arts, Granada, Spain
Director de Proyecto:
Dr. Manolo González Manrique
Directora Académica:
Ma. Cristina Enríquez Arcaraz
17 de diciembre de 2005

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Índice

I.

Agradecimiento………………………………………………………….3

II.Abstract………………………………………………………………….4

III.

Introducción……………………………………………………………..7

IV.

Metodología…………………………………………………………….10

V.

La situación anterior……………………………………………………11

VI.

¿Qué es la movida?.................................................................................14

VII.

El cine de Pedro Almodóvar…………………………………………...16
a. Pepi, Luci, Bom, y otras chicas delmontón……………………….17
b. El laberinto de pasiones…………………………………………...22
c. La ley de deseo…………………………………………………….25

VIII.

Conclusión…………………………………………………………….27

IX.

Bibliografía…………………………………………………………....28

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Agradecimiento

Quiero expresar mi gratitud a Manolo por su tiempo, apoyo, y su conocimiento de
todas maneras. Sin él, yo no podría encontrar un camino para realizar este proyecto.
¡Espero que tengasbuena suerte con tu libro y tu futuro!

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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 Spanishpeople 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 subvertingthe 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
andthe 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...