Womp Stomp Films | BATH BOMB: Queer Representation in Giallo Cinema @WompStompFilms | Uploaded March 2023 | Updated October 2024, 5 hours ago.
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Giallo has a bit of a troubled relationship with the queer community. On one hand, many of the subgenre’s flamboyant aesthetic trends have had a huge influence on queer cinema. On the other hand, the subgenre’s treatment of queer characters has garnered heated criticism from academics, critics, and the queer community at large.
Given that the majority of Giallo films were made in the late 60s and early 70s, they actually had an unusually large amount of queer characters. However, the way these characters were presented was pretty troublesome. In particular, queer men.
Queer men were typically given little to no narrative license. At best, they were relegated to comedic relief, serving as an effeminate counterpart to the heterosexual male protagonist, and eventually killed off. At worst, they were cast as the killer, or red herring suspect, often with a not-so-subtle subtext of pedophilia.
Our aim is to turn this history on its head. Bath Bomb features queer men acting with agency in their own narrative, while sending up common queer stereotypes in a playful, tongue-in-cheek manner.
Support Bath Bomb here: igg.me/at/bathbombhorror/x/18000311#
Giallo has a bit of a troubled relationship with the queer community. On one hand, many of the subgenre’s flamboyant aesthetic trends have had a huge influence on queer cinema. On the other hand, the subgenre’s treatment of queer characters has garnered heated criticism from academics, critics, and the queer community at large.
Given that the majority of Giallo films were made in the late 60s and early 70s, they actually had an unusually large amount of queer characters. However, the way these characters were presented was pretty troublesome. In particular, queer men.
Queer men were typically given little to no narrative license. At best, they were relegated to comedic relief, serving as an effeminate counterpart to the heterosexual male protagonist, and eventually killed off. At worst, they were cast as the killer, or red herring suspect, often with a not-so-subtle subtext of pedophilia.
Our aim is to turn this history on its head. Bath Bomb features queer men acting with agency in their own narrative, while sending up common queer stereotypes in a playful, tongue-in-cheek manner.
