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Caravaggio by Leo Bersani; Ulysse Dutoit
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Category: Popular Culture | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
Caravaggio (1986), Derek Jarman's portrait of the Italian Baroque artist, shows the painter at work with models drawn from Rome's homeless and prostitutes, and his relationship with two very different lovers- Ranuccio, played by Sean Bean, and Lena, played by Tilda Swinton. It is probably the closest De ...Show more
Gay Betrayals: Two Works Series Vol. 5 by Leo Bersani, Hannah Quinlan, Rosie Hastings
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Category: LGBTI & Queer Studies
In 1997, during a symposium at Centre Pompidou, Leo Bersani presented a prescient critique of the assimilative tendencies that made 'gays melt into the very culture they like to think of themselves as undermining.' Mired in micropolitics, for Bersani, queer activism had relinquished the radical task of ...Show more
Is the Rectum a Grave?: And Other Essays by Leo Bersani
$57.99 AUD
Category: LGBTI & Queer Studies
Over the course of a distinguished career, critic Leo Bersani has tackled a range of issues in his writing, and this collection gathers together some of his finest work. Beginning with one of the foundations of queer theory - his famous meditation on how sex leads to a shattering of the self, "Is the Re ...Show more
Receptive Bodies by Leo Bersani
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Category: LGBTI & Queer Studies
Leo Bersani, known for his provocative interrogations of psychoanalysis, sexuality, and the human body, centers his latest book on a surprisingly simple image: a newborn baby simultaneously crying out and drawing its first breath. These twin ideas--absorption and expulsion, the intake of physical and em ...Show more
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