Coding Gender in Romance Cultures

The book reunites transdisciplinary studies on the construction and deconstruction of gender in filmic, literary, and television Romance cultures. It presents a transmedial and transnational historiography of media, using figures of nomadic thinking to escape the binary concepts of normative biopolitics and offer new cartographies of desire.

The book reunites transdisciplinary studies investigating the questions of construction and deconstruction of gender in filmic, literary, and television Romance cultures by referring to a corpus that stretches from plays of travesty in 18th century opera to non-normative masculinities in recent television series.
One of this book's main objectives consists in inviting its readers to follow the traces of a transmedial and transnational historiography of media that offers figures of nomadic thinking in order to escape the binary concepts of normative biopolitics and offer instead alternative cartographies of gender and desire.

Autorentext

Uta Felten is a full professor, Tanja Schwan is an assistant professor for romance studies at Leipzig University. Giulia Colaizzi is a full professor at the University of Valencia, and Francisco A. Zurian is a professor at the Complutense University of Madrid, both in the domain of audiovisual communication theory and publicity.

Inhalt
Hauptkapitel: Women, gender, cinema, and the arts Mediatized images of masculinity and femininity Relectures of gender coding in 18th-, 19th-, and 20th-Century literature, theater, opera, and performance