In 1979 he played the title role in Salvatore Samperi's Ernesto, an adaptation of Umberto Saba 's novel of the same name. In addition, Martin Halm attended the University of California, UCLA in Los Angeles, and studied film. In the United States, lessons in scenic work, singing and camera technology were added.

He received private lessons from an acting teacher at the Otto Falckenberg School in Munich. This title should be of interest to Italianists, medieval to modern, and queer cultural theorists.Halm completed an acting training in Germany and in the United States. These essays open a critical space in the Italian tradition wherein fixed definitions of sexual identity collapse. Somewhat paradoxically, a kind of queer canon results. The volume aims not to promote the mistaken notion of a single homosexuality through history rather, these essays together upset and undo the equally misguided assumption of an omnipresent heterosexuality through time by uncovering the various, complex workings of desire in texts from all periods. While fully cognizant of the theoretical risks inherent in transhistoricizing sexuality, the contributors to this volume share an interest in probing the multiform dynamics of sexual desires in Italian texts through the centuries. The volume's chronological organization reflects its intention to define a queer tradition in Italian culture. This volume gathers essays on Italian literature and film, medieval to modern.

D.Duncan Transitive Gender and Queer Performance in the Novels of Mario Mieli and Vittorio Pescatori.S.Parussa Secret Wounds: The Bodies of Facism in Giorgio Bassani's Dietro La Porta.W.V.Watson Reluctantly Queer: In Search of the Homoerotic Novel in Twentieth-Century Italian Fiction.A.O'Healy Adapting to Heterocentricity: The Film Versions of Umberto Saba's Ernesto and Giorgio Bassini's The Gold-Rimmed Spectacles.D.Danna Desire and Disavowal in Liliana Cavani's 'German Triology'.R.Kerr Beauty and the Beast: Lesbians in Literature and Sexual Science from the Nineteenth to the Twentieth Centuries.G.Dall'Orto Tra(ns)vestying Gender and Genre in Flaminio Scala's Il (Finto) Marito.M.A.Gallucci 'Nature is a Mother Most Sweet': Homosexuality in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth- Century Italian Libertinism.M.M.DeCoste Acting Up in the Renaissance: The Case of Benvenuto Cellini.M.Wyatt 'Knots of Desire': Female Homoeroticism in Orlando furioso XXV.B.Schlager Bibbiena's Closet: Interpretation and the Sexual Culture of a Renaissance Papal Court.G.P.Cestaro 'The Dead Sea of Sodomy': Giordano da Pisa on Men Who Have Sex with Men.Introduction Queer Italia: Same-sex Desire in Italian Literature and Film.Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.

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