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Popular Culture Research Seminar Series at Liverpool Hope University (Hope Park):
Loose Cannons Unloaded
Popular Music, Space, and Queer Identities in the Films of Ferzan Ozpetek
Dr Elena Boschi (Liverpool Hope University)
Tuesday 23 April, 1-2, FML123 (Gateway Building)
Ferzan Ozpetek’s films are known for overtly breaching the subject of queer identities in Italian cinema. Songs often undermine the inclusive representations claimed by films in which queer and other non-dominant identities are visible. Where these identities are positioned, which space their members can claim, and who can enter whose space are all important factors for a critical appraisal of their cinematic representations. Furthermore, instances of songs marking space as the territory one group can own and where another remains unwelcome can produce different associative audiovisual combinations between Italian and non-Italian music on the one hand, and queer and other non-dominant identities on the other. The way queer identities are spatially and musically contained and Othered complicates the transnational dimension in which Ozpetek’s films are often located. The queer identities Ozpetek allegedly makes ‘visible’, I argue, inescapably negotiate the national as a dimension against which characters are still spatially and musically contained and constructed as Other. This paper will explore the interaction between popular music and space in the films of Ferzan Ozpetek and discuss how audiovisual representations can situate queer identities in the shifting landscape of contemporary Italian cinema.
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