Cartoline da un mondo torbido: maschilità, violenza e omosessualità nel cinema italiano del dopoguerra

By comparing a few examples, the article sketches some forms assumed by the complex relationship between homosexuality and violence in two different moments of the postwar Italian cinema, that is around 1960, when cinema became heavily influenced by crime news, and in the 1970s, when intimacy was primarily at stake. In doing so, this essay aims at showing how very different forms of violence, in different social and cultural contexts, deal with gender issues and are rooted in troubled masculinities and gender confusion.