Spaghetti Sissies Queering Italian American Media: Spaghetti Sissies (Italian And Italian American Studies)

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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.


  • | Author: Julia Heim, Sole Anatrone
  • | Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
  • | Publication Date: Apr 29, 2023
  • | Number of Pages: 303 pages
  • | Language: English
  • | Binding: Hardcover
  • | ISBN-10: 3031101960
  • | ISBN-13: 9783031101960
Author:
Julia Heim, Sole Anatrone
Publisher:
Palgrave Macmillan
Publication Date:
Apr 29, 2023
Number of pages:
303 pages
Language:
English
Binding:
Hardcover
ISBN-10:
3031101960
ISBN-13:
9783031101960