Queer Italy: Contexts, Antecedents and Representation (Intersections in Communications and Culture)

Book info: Queer Italy: Contexts, Antecedents and Representation (Intersections in Communications and Culture) (Paperback, 278 pages) – Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers, 2007. Language: English.

Queer Italy is the first multi-methodological inquiry into the historical, political and representational contexts behind the current plea for civil unions that queers advocate in Italy. Concerned with the links between identity, subjectivity and sexuality in Italy, this book opens Italian studies to previously neglected discussion of queer and migrant subjectivities. The author applies Lacanian film analysis and auto-ethnographic passages to question the uses of queer politics in Italy. Accessible and comprehensive, this is an ideal text for undergraduate and graduate courses on Italian culture, cultural studies and film studies. Editorial Reviews About the Author The Author: Miguel Andrés Malagreca is an independent researcher for the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. A trained Lacanian psychoanalyst and former Tinker and Fulbright Grantee, he received his Ph.D. in communications research from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The author of numerous journal articles, he is editor of Aesthethika and co-editor of Globalizing Cultural Studies: Ethnographic Interventions in Theory, Method and Policy (Peter Lang, forthcoming).