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Besides tracing the evolution of representations through both art and popular films, this book also analyses connections with consumer culture, film criticism and politics. Through archival research and a survey of more than 600 films, the author enriches our understanding of thirty years of Italian film and cultural history.


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“The book sounds like it will adopt a historicist approach that reads Italian films in terms of ‘positive’ and ‘negative’ images of homosexuality. … One of the strengths of this highly readable, often witty book is precisely the author’s flexibility of approach. … Giori’s book is a valuable contribution to a growing body of work in Queer Italian Studies.” (John Champagne, gender / sexuality / Italy, Vol. 6, 2019)

Table of Contents
1. Introduction.- 2. Silence.- 3. Enjoying the Darkness.- 4. Undressing the Other.- 5. Luchinidi and Pasolinidi.- 6. Love in the Time of Panic.- 7. Sexual Revolution, Italian Style.- 8. Pornography of Death.- 9. The Only Good Thing.- 10. Homophiles and Gays Go to the Movies.- 11. Conclusion: Martyrdom and Pleasure.

Homosexuality and Italian Cinema From the Fall of Fascism to the Years of Lead

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      Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan UK
      Publication Date: 12/4/2017 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9781137565921, 978-1137565921
      ISBN10: 1137565926
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Besides tracing the evolution of representations through both art and popular films, this book also analyses connections with consumer culture, film criticism and politics. Through archival research and a survey of more than 600 films, the author enriches our understanding of thirty years of Italian film and cultural history.


      Trade Review
      “The book sounds like it will adopt a historicist approach that reads Italian films in terms of ‘positive’ and ‘negative’ images of homosexuality. … One of the strengths of this highly readable, often witty book is precisely the author’s flexibility of approach. … Giori’s book is a valuable contribution to a growing body of work in Queer Italian Studies.” (John Champagne, gender / sexuality / Italy, Vol. 6, 2019)

      Table of Contents
      1. Introduction.- 2. Silence.- 3. Enjoying the Darkness.- 4. Undressing the Other.- 5. Luchinidi and Pasolinidi.- 6. Love in the Time of Panic.- 7. Sexual Revolution, Italian Style.- 8. Pornography of Death.- 9. The Only Good Thing.- 10. Homophiles and Gays Go to the Movies.- 11. Conclusion: Martyrdom and Pleasure.

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