
Queering Italian Media
Lexington Books (Publisher)
Published on 20. January 2020
Book
Hardback
174 pages
978-1-7936-1610-4 (ISBN)
Description
Queering Italian Media analyzes and offers queer readings of LGBTQIA+ representation in Italian media. The contributors apply various understandings of "queer" and "media" as they discuss the relationship between the political and social lives of queer populations in Italy and investigate their representations in film, news media, television, social media, and viewer-generated media sites. Queering Italian Media examines queer positionality, challenges notions of Italianness as it relates to and is reflected in media, and queers understandings of viewer engagement and participation in media consumption and production.
Reviews / Votes
Queering Italian Media is a ground-breaking collection which brings queer theory to bear on a range of Italian media content, including newspapers, auteur cinema, mainstream film comedy, game shows, and fan remediations of TV productions. It asks provocative questions about the relationship of queer identities and positions to mainstream media culture and the possibility of productive queer spaces being opened up by fandoms. It shows the importance of queering identities, media texts, and viewing positions, and offers an illuminating and diverse set of readings that engage both theory and the queer experience in Italy. The volume allows for a new understanding of how media texts and ecosystems situate themselves, and are experienced, within a heteronormative national context like the Italian one. -- Catherine O'Rawe, University of BristolMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
415 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-7936-1610-4 (9781793616104)
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Sole Anatrone | Julia Heim
Queering Italian Media
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Persons
Sole Anatrone is assistant professor of Italian studies at Vassar College and co-founder of Asterisk, an LGBTQIA+ inclusivity taskforce.
Julia Heim is instructor ofItalian language at the University of Pennsylvania and co-founder of Asterisk, an LGBTQIA+ inclusivity taskforce.
Julia Heim is instructor ofItalian language at the University of Pennsylvania and co-founder of Asterisk, an LGBTQIA+ inclusivity taskforce.
Editor
Contributions
Content
Chapter One: The Lavorini Case: the Mediatic Confection of the Homosexual Ogres and the Homosexual Counterattack
Alessio Ponzio
Chapter Two: We Want Lesbians Too: A Lesbian-Feminist Counter-History Inspired by We Want Roses Too
Alessia Palanti
Chapter Three: A Queerer Road: Crossing Borders on and off the Screen in Corazones de Mujer
Sole Anatrone
Chapter Four: The Non-normative Potential of Mainstream Film
Dom Holdaway
Chapter Five: An all Italian Game of Thrones: A Social Media Investigation of Maria de Filippi's Gay Male Version of the Trash, Dating Show Uomini e Donne
Luca Malici
Chapter Six: Queer Italian Communities and Alternative Televisual Re/Mediations
Julia Heim
Alessio Ponzio
Chapter Two: We Want Lesbians Too: A Lesbian-Feminist Counter-History Inspired by We Want Roses Too
Alessia Palanti
Chapter Three: A Queerer Road: Crossing Borders on and off the Screen in Corazones de Mujer
Sole Anatrone
Chapter Four: The Non-normative Potential of Mainstream Film
Dom Holdaway
Chapter Five: An all Italian Game of Thrones: A Social Media Investigation of Maria de Filippi's Gay Male Version of the Trash, Dating Show Uomini e Donne
Luca Malici
Chapter Six: Queer Italian Communities and Alternative Televisual Re/Mediations
Julia Heim