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    "pk": 40677,
    "title": "Marking Their Territory: Male Adolescence Abroad in Recent Italian Teen Film",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "Due to its alignment with popular culture, the teen film is often considered a feminized genre or mode, one ideally addressed to, and consumed by, a primarily female audience. And yet, a number of recent Italian teen films privilege the male experience of adolescence and, as a result, draw the gendered paradigm of the genre into question. In this article, I examine the representation of adolescent masculinity in four films produced over the course of about a decade: Giovanni Veronesi’s \nChe ne sar\nà \ndi noi\n [\nWhat Will Become of Us\n] (2004), Francesca Archibugi’s \nLezioni di volo\n [\nFlying Lessons\n] (2007), Francesco Falaschi’s \nLast Minute Marocco\n [\nLast Minute Morocco\n] (2007), and Luigi Cecinelli’s \nNiente può fermarci\n [\nNothing Can Stop Us\n] (2013). The young men in these films prove their masculinity, and demonstrate their willingness to conform to society’s norms, by engaging in heterosexual intercourse during journeys abroad. When they eventually break off their relationships with women and create homosocial utopias, however, they express their suspicion of, and dissatisfaction with, heteronormative coupledom and marriage. The preference for male-male friendships suggests a significant alteration of the classical melodramatic denouement which so often privileges the heterosexual couple and the promulgation of the heteronormative family. The male adolescents of these films thus use women strategically, calling on them to make them men—often, though not solely, through sexual intercourse—before casting them aside on their way to adulthood.",
    "language": "en",
    "license": {
        "name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial  4.0",
        "short_name": "CC BY-NC 4.0",
        "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\n\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\n\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.",
        "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0"
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Coming-of-age"
        },
        {
            "word": "adolescence"
        },
        {
            "word": "Masculinity"
        },
        {
            "word": "disability"
        },
        {
            "word": "Emigration"
        },
        {
            "word": "National Cinema"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Vol.7: Moving Images",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6w37g1w9",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Dan",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Paul",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "The Ohio State University",
            "department": "None"
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": "2016-08-05T02:08:12+02:00",
    "date_accepted": "2016-08-05T02:08:12+02:00",
    "date_published": "2017-12-28T18:18:32+01:00",
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    ]
}