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Chapter 1 paints a picture of the state of the art; establishing the relevance of same-sex desires, pleasures, and anxieties within a more general process of eroticization of cinema that formed the spine of the development of the Italian film industry between the late 1940s and the 1970s.

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    Unfortunately, we still lack a proper cultural history of homosexuality in Italy in the postwar period, as well as comprehensive surveys of its relationship with literature, theater, television and other aspects of Italian culture, which would be invaluable to draw comparisons with cinema. Apart from a few examples, these comparisons inevitably remain beyond the compass of this book.

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    Letter published in La Stampa, 15 November 1960.

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    The murder, caused by a disagreement about a repayment, was widely covered by national newspapers at the beginning of November.

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Giori, M. (2017). Introduction. In: Homosexuality and Italian Cinema. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56593-8_1

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