TY - GEN digital ID - 131602456 TI - Homosexuality and Italian cinema : from the fall of fascism to the years of lead PY - 2017 SN - 9781137565921 9781137565938 PB - London Palgrave Macmillan DB - UniCat KW - Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality KW - Film KW - LGBTQIA+ (lesbian, gay, bi, trans, queer, intersex and asexual) KW - fascisme KW - Homosexuality KW - anno 1940-1949 KW - anno 1950-1959 KW - anno 1960-1969 KW - Italy UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:131602456 AB - 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. ER -