Spaghetti Sissies Queering Italian American Media (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2023)

This contributed volume brings together personal accounts and scholarly research in an examination of the LGBTQIA+ Italian American experience and representation in North American media. This is a population that has long been ignored both as an object of study and as a media-maker and consumer. Through consistent filmic representation, the image of the Italian American has become archetypal, leaving us with a set of immediately recognizable characters: the hyper macho blue-collar greaser, the anti-intellectual GTL Guido, the child-obsessed mamma, and the heteronormative mafia family. The rhetorical and literal loudness of these characters drowns out other possible embodiments of Italian American identity so that few examples survive of Italian Americans that do not conform to these classed, heterosexual modes of being. This volume fills that void, foregrounding the importance of representation and of rethinking the historical narratives and cultural stereotypes surrounding Italian American identity. This book is especially designed for those with an interest in queer theory, gender and sexuality studies, Italian American studies, and media and cultural studies.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Italian and Italian American Studies
Release date:	March 2023
First published:	2024
Editors:	Julia Heim • Sole Anatrone
Dimensions:	210 x 148mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	250
Edition:	1st ed. 2023
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-110196-0
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Media studies Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > General
LSN:	3-03-110196-0
Barcode:	9783031101960

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