Millennial Screen Cultures in Spain: Queering the Mainstream

This article interrogates queer representations in twenty-first century Spanish film and digital media, focusing on a group of emerging millennial filmmakers: Paco León, Eduardo Casanova, and the filmmaking duo Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo (‘Los Javis’). I argue that the films and digital series by these directors are representative of a Spanish queer aesthetics which navigates between combative subversion and mainstream normalisation. I assess to what extent contemporary screen cultures are still challenging hegemonic social and ideological constructs in relation to gender, sexuality, and identity and in what ways they grapple with LGBTQ+ visibility and subjectivity vis à vis the mainstream audio-visual media industry.