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Spaghetti Sissies

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.

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.
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With essays that include the feature film Alto and spotlight essays by Mitch del Monico, Annie Lanzillotto, Julio Vincent Gambuto, and many more.
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  • Home
  • About
    • About Me
    • Publications >
      • Advocate
      • Huffington Post
      • Los Angeles Times
      • Paterson Literary Review
      • The New York Times
    • Press | Author >
      • 1010 WINS
      • T.H.E. Celebration - Tom Earl
    • Press | Writer-Director >
      • Advocate - 7 Tips
      • Albany Business Review
      • Bucknell Magazine
      • BGSQD
      • California Health Report
      • DFFLA | Best First-Time Director
      • Edge Media Network
      • Gay Sonoma
      • Into More Magazine
      • Italics - CUNY TV
      • Screen Anarchy
      • Solzy at the Movies
      • Times Union
      • T.H.E. Celebration - Tom Earl
      • TransGlobal Magazine
      • True Fiction Podcast
    • Press | Other >
      • Girls Rising Live
      • T.H.E. Celebration - Tom Earl
      • T.H.E. Celebration - Tom Earl
      • Venice Family Clinic
  • Books
    • Politically Divided
    • Spaghetti Sissies
  • Film/TV
    • Alto >
      • Alto Website
      • Trailer and Synopsis
      • The Cast
      • The Crew
      • Press
      • Film Stills
      • Production Stills
      • YouTube Playlists
      • Alto Mailing List
      • Alto ❤ Antigone Rising
      • Kickstarter Campaign
    • Agent of Change
    • Indelible >
      • Trailer and Art
      • The Cast
      • Writer's Statement
    • Rachel on Top
    • Trigger Point
    • Music Videos >
      • Antigone Rising
      • Ivy Markaity
      • M5 | Marilyn D'Amato
      • Trina Hamlin | Meg Wolfe
      • Linda Zacchi
  • Contact Me
  • Extras
    • Film Fests | Panels | Juries
    • Future Tense of Joy
    • Huffington Post
    • Quizzes | Polls >
      • Holding It Quiz
      • Sexuality Quiz
      • Your Political Candy Heart Quiz
    • Reagan American Icon
    • Semester at Sea