This chapter provides an overview of the presence of LGBTQ+ characters in contemporary popular Italian cinema. It studies their role within the films as figures of tension that enable a non-homophobic or non-racist image of Italy within certain normative, class or race limits, but considers what the queer potential of these characters might nonetheless be.
The Queer Potential of Mainstream Film
Dominic Francis Graham Holdaway
2020
Abstract
This chapter provides an overview of the presence of LGBTQ+ characters in contemporary popular Italian cinema. It studies their role within the films as figures of tension that enable a non-homophobic or non-racist image of Italy within certain normative, class or race limits, but considers what the queer potential of these characters might nonetheless be.File in questo prodotto:
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