[ecrea] New Book: Homosexuality and Italian Cinema

New book announcement: Homosexuality and Italian Cinema: From the Fall 
of Fascism to the Years of Lead (Mauro Giori, University of Milan)
Palgrave MacMillan, 2017

Description:
This book is the first to establish the relevance of same-sex desires, 
pleasures and anxieties in the cinema of post-war Italy. It explores 
cinematic representations of homosexuality and their significance in a 
wider cultural struggle in Italy involving society, cinema, and 
sexuality between the 1940s and 1970s. Besides tracing the evolution of 
representations through both art and popular films, this book also 
analyses connections with consumer culture, film criticism and politics. 
Giori uncovers how complicated negotiations between challenges to and 
valorization of dominant forms of knowledge of homosexuality shaped 
representations and argues that they were not always the outcome of 
hatred but also sought to convey unmentionable pleasures and 
complicities. 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.

Endorsement:

Richard Dyer, Professor of Film Studies, King’s College London, UK

“In this wonderfully researched, lucidly organised book, Mauro Giori 
does not so much take us beyond the internationally renowned gay cinema 
of Visconti and Pasolini as place this in the extraordinarily rich, 
elusive and thrilling cinema of its time. His book is more than a 
fascinating overview of homosexuality in Italian cinema in a period 
exciting equally for the richness of Italian cinema and the emergence of 
gay identities. It is also a new kind of gay film history, weaving 
together film texts with production and censorship, gossip and scandal, 
festivals, criticism and cinemagoing, all beautifully contextualised in 
relation to the politics and culture of the times. This is a model of 
historical research and a vibrant account of an astonishing moment in 
queer culture.”

For more information on the book:

http://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9781137565921


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