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This book is an attempt to save "the sexual" from the oblivion to
which certain strands in queer theory tend to condemn it, and at
the same time to limit the risks of anti-politics and solipsism
contained in what has been termed antisocial queer theory. It takes
a journey from Sigmund Freud to Mario Mieli and Guy Hocquenghem,
from Michel Foucault and Judith Butler to Teresa de Lauretis, Leo
Bersani, Lee Edelman, and Tim Dean, and from all of these thinkers
back to Immanuel Kant and Thomas Hobbes. At the end, through
readings of Bruce LaBruce's movies on gay zombies, the elitism of
antisocial queer theory is brought into contact with popular
culture. The living dead come to represent a dispossessed form of
subjectivity, whose monstrous drives are counterposed to predatory
desires of liberal individuals. The reader is thus lead into the
interstitial spaces of the Queer Apocalypses, where the past and
the future collapse onto the present, and sexual minorities
resurrect to the chance of a non-heroic political agency.
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.
This book is an attempt to save "the sexual" from the oblivion to
which certain strands in queer theory tend to condemn it, and at
the same time to limit the risks of anti-politics and solipsism
contained in what has been termed antisocial queer theory. It takes
a journey from Sigmund Freud to Mario Mieli and Guy Hocquenghem,
from Michel Foucault and Judith Butler to Teresa de Lauretis, Leo
Bersani, Lee Edelman, and Tim Dean, and from all of these thinkers
back to Immanuel Kant and Thomas Hobbes. At the end, through
readings of Bruce LaBruce's movies on gay zombies, the elitism of
antisocial queer theory is brought into contact with popular
culture. The living dead come to represent a dispossessed form of
subjectivity, whose monstrous drives are counterposed to predatory
desires of liberal individuals. The reader is thus lead into the
interstitial spaces of the Queer Apocalypses, where the past and
the future collapse onto the present, and sexual minorities
resurrect to the chance of a non-heroic political agency.
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Queering Italian Media (Paperback)
Sole Anatrone, Julia Heim; Contributions by Sole Anatrone, Julia Heim, Dom Holdaway, …
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R1,017
Discovery Miles 10 170
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Ships in 9 - 15 working days
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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.
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Queering Italian Media (Hardcover)
Sole Anatrone, Julia Heim; Contributions by Sole Anatrone, Julia Heim, Dom Holdaway, …
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R3,126
Discovery Miles 31 260
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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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.
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