Italian Masculinity as Queer Melodrama [electronic resource] : Caravaggio, Puccini, Contemporary Cinema /
Champagne, John.author.
Offering queer analyses of paintings by Caravaggio and Puccini and films by Özpetek, Amelio, and Grimaldi, Champagne argues that Italian masculinity has often been articulated through melodrama. Wide in scope and multidisciplinary in approach, this much-needed study shows the vital role of affect for both Italian history and masculinity studies.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Italian masculinity and melodrama -- Caravaggio and the melodramatic sensibility -- Caravaggio's melodramatic male bodies -- Tosca and social melodrama -- Puccini's sparrow: longing and La rondine -- "Normality, what an ugly word!": contemporary queer melodrama -- Özpetek's queer cinema -- Conclusion.
Offering queer analyses of paintings by Caravaggio and Puccini and films by Özpetek, Amelio, and Grimaldi, Champagne argues that Italian masculinity has often been articulated through melodrama. Wide in scope and multidisciplinary in approach, this much-needed study shows the vital role of affect for both Italian history and masculinity studies.
Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da, 1573-1610
Sociology.
Arts.
Music.
Italy—History.
Gender Studies.
Arts.
Music.
History of Italy.