RT Journal Article
T1 The Spanish Latin lover: a strictly domestic myth?
T2 El latin lover español: ¿un mito ibérico?
A1 Fuentes Vega, Alicia
AB The character of the Mediterranean Latin lover became increasingly popular in late-Francoism Spain owing to a subgenre of films that exploited masculine phantasies of sexual encounters with foreign tourists. Building on a visual analysis of several media (brochures and magazines, Government propaganda, guidebooks and travel books, postcards), this paper examines the actual presence of the Latin lover in Spanish tourism imaginaries during the Franco dictatorship. Despite its important role in the hegemonic narrative of Spain’s tourism boom as a liberalizing factor that clashed against the regime, the myth of the Spanish Don Juan remains absent from the destination image intended for foreign audiences. This suggests that its circulation was strictly domestic, and reinforces its interpretation as a governmentality device.
PB Institut des sciences humaines et sociales du CNRS
SN 2259-924X
YR 2018
FD 2018
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/100272
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/100272
LA eng
NO Fuentes Vega, Alicia. «The Spanish Latin lover: a strictly domestic myth?: A visual inquiry about the role of eroticism in Spanish tourism imaginaries (1950-70)». Via Tourism Review, n.o 11-12 (31 de diciembre de 2017). https://doi.org/10.4000/viatourism.1671.
NO Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
DS Docta Complutense
RD 7 abr 2025