Queer Gender Performativity in Documentary Cinema: The Transgender Look of Italian Filmmaker Simone Cangelosi

• Autores: Adelina Sánchez Espinosa , Orianna Aketzalli Calderón Sandoval
• Localización: Comunicación y Género, ISSN-e 2605-1982, Vol. 3, Nº. 1, 2020, págs. 27-35
• Idioma: español
• DOI: 10.5209/cgen.67500
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  • Queer Gender Performativity in Documentary Cinema: The Transgender Look of Italian Filmmaker Simone Cangelosi
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    Este artículo analiza la forma en la que la contravisualidad queer del cineasta italiano Simone Cangelosi opera en sus documentales Dalla testa ai piedi (2007) y Una nobile rivoluzione (2014). El marco teórico traza una genealogía desde las llamadas miradas masculina y femenina, hasta las miradas transgénero, queer y feministas. También se establecen conexiones entre el modo de representación performativo, el cine documental performativo y la performatividad de género. Mediante una lectura detallada de las dos películas y una entrevista con el cineasta, este artículo argumenta que en el cine documental una manera queer de ver puede representar no sólo realidades existentes sino también otras formas de ser, de convertirse y de ejercer colectivamente el derecho a aparecer.

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    This article analyses the ways in which Italian filmmaker Simone Cangelosi enacts a queer countervisuality in his documentary films Dalla testa ai piedi (2007) and Una nobile rivoluzione (2014). The theoretical framework traces a genealogy from what has been termed as fe/male gazes up to what can be understood as transgender, queer and feminist gazes. Connections between the performative mode of representation, performative documentary cinema and gender performativity are also established. By means of a close reading of both films and an interview with the filmmaker, this paper argues that queer ways of seeing in documentary cinema cannot only depict existing realities but also put forward other ways of being, becoming and collectively enacting the right to appear.

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