It has become common place in some academic circles to assume that the most ground-breaking approaches to the study of Italian media culture come from scholars who work outside of Italy. Contradicting this assumption, this special issue builds on the rich scholarly production on pornography coming from the Italian academy. Publishing this special issue on one of the most prominent US-based venues dedicated to the study of Italian politics, culture and society represents much more than an attempt to give international visibility to the important scholarly debates that have been taking place in Italy during the last few years. It also represents an opportunity to challenge, and perhaps reverse, an established narrative, which assumes that scholarship coming from the Anglophone academia—especially when dealing with gender and sexuality—is always more advanced than research being carried out in Southern Europe.
Italy Talks Porn: Porn Studies in Italy. Journal Editorial
Zecca Federico
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2022-01-01
Abstract
It has become common place in some academic circles to assume that the most ground-breaking approaches to the study of Italian media culture come from scholars who work outside of Italy. Contradicting this assumption, this special issue builds on the rich scholarly production on pornography coming from the Italian academy. Publishing this special issue on one of the most prominent US-based venues dedicated to the study of Italian politics, culture and society represents much more than an attempt to give international visibility to the important scholarly debates that have been taking place in Italy during the last few years. It also represents an opportunity to challenge, and perhaps reverse, an established narrative, which assumes that scholarship coming from the Anglophone academia—especially when dealing with gender and sexuality—is always more advanced than research being carried out in Southern Europe.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
