Sexo, drogas y ¿cárcel? Subjetividades modernas en <i>Intimidades de una cualquiera</i> (1974)

Abstract

The aim of this this paper is to analyse the film Intimidades de una cualquiera (1974) by Armando Bó and Isabel Sarli in relation to the social, economic, and cultural modernisation of the 1960s and 1970s. We consider the prison to be the key space-concept of the film in which the complex reformulation of sexual, religious, and economic subjectivities is concentrated. Within the broader theoretical framework of modernity, we establish a dialogue between the history of gender and sexuality, reception studies, critical theories of spectatorship and the recent critical revaluation of exploitation cinemas. From this perspective, we argue that the production, narrative, and reception of the film are grounded in subjective and institutional contradictions that transcend any simple dichotomy between tradition and modernity.