Sole Anatrone is assistant professor of Italian studies at Vassar College and co-founder of Asterisk, an LGBTQIA+ inclusivity taskforce.Julia Heim is instructor ofItalian language at the University of Pennsylvania and co-founder of Asterisk, an LGBTQIA+ inclusivity taskforce.

Queering Italian Media is a ground-breaking collection which brings queer theory to bear on a range of Italian media content, including newspapers, auteur cinema, mainstream film comedy, game shows, and fan remediations of TV productions. It asks provocative questions about the relationship of queer identities and positions to mainstream media culture and the possibility of productive queer spaces being opened up by fandoms. It shows the importance of queering identities, media texts, and viewing positions, and offers an illuminating and diverse set of readings that engage both theory and the queer experience in Italy. The volume allows for a new understanding of how media texts and ecosystems situate themselves, and are experienced, within a heteronormative national context like the Italian one.

• Chapter One: The Lavorini Case: the Mediatic Confection of the Homosexual Ogres and the Homosexual CounterattackAlessio PonzioChapter Two: We Want Lesbians Too: A Lesbian-Feminist Counter-History Inspired by We Want Roses TooAlessia PalantiChapter Three: A Queerer Road: Crossing Borders on and off the Screen in Corazones de MujerSole AnatroneChapter Four: The Non-normative Potential of Mainstream FilmDom HoldawayChapter Five: An all Italian Game of Thrones: A Social Media Investigation of Maria de Filippi’s Gay Male Version of the Trash, Dating Show Uomini e DonneLuca MaliciChapter Six: Queer Italian Communities and Alternative Televisual Re/MediationsJulia Heim