Familiarising the Gay, Queering the Family: Coming Out and Resilience in Mambo italiano

摘要: This article explores how two Italian-Canadian families negotiate the coming out of their sons in film Mambo italiano, a comedy/ drama released 2003 and set Montreal, Canada. The protagonist, Angelo, after years living closet, decides to tell his parents he is gay, outing at same time lover, Nino, provoking initially strong vexed reactions respective families. Although full stereotypes cliches on ethnicity gender identities, following closely so-called coming-out films’ genre, arguably concerned with positive representations gay experiences, portrays ironic, creative, interesting ways which these despite homophobic prejudices they are imbued with. Moving from studies family resilience, this argues that major strategies used for integrating gayness into drawn resources available (pos...