{"product_id":"queering-italian-media-9781793616104","title":"Queering Italian Media","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eQueering 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eQueering 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 Bristol\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter One: The Lavorini Case: the Mediatic Confection of the Homosexual Ogres and the Homosexual Counterattack\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlessio Ponzio\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter Two: We Want Lesbians Too: A Lesbian-Feminist Counter-History Inspired by We Want Roses Too\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlessia Palanti\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter Three: A Queerer Road: Crossing Borders on and off the Screen in Corazones de Mujer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSole Anatrone\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter Four: The Non-normative Potential of Mainstream Film\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDom Holdaway\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLuca Malici\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter Six: Queer Italian Communities and Alternative Televisual Re\/Mediations\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJulia Heim","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042636038487,"sku":"9781793616104","price":69.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781793616104.jpg?v=1750954949","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/queering-italian-media-9781793616104","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}