Luchino Visconti's 1973 film Ludwig exploited the biography of Ludwig II of Bavaria, a notorious homosexual. In turn, Visconti's film became an erotic tale primarily intended to arouse heterosexual male readers in the form of Ludwig, il folle di Baviera, a porn comic book conceived as a spoof published while the film was still in post-production. As well as considering the general relationship between mainstream cinema and pornographic comics and their representation of homosexuality, this article analyzes Ludwig, il folle di Baviera as a re-adaptation of Visconti's film that exploits the director's peculiar image in order to handle its ambiguous sexual content.
A Story of love and blood: the strange connection between Ludwig II, Luchino Visconti and Italian pornographic comic books / M. Giori. - In: PORN STUDIES. - ISSN 2326-8743. - 2:1(2015 Jan 26), pp. 4-18. [10.1080/23268743.2014.993892]
A Story of love and blood: the strange connection between Ludwig II, Luchino Visconti and Italian pornographic comic books
M. GioriPrimo
2015
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Luchino Visconti's 1973 film Ludwig exploited the biography of Ludwig II of Bavaria, a notorious homosexual. In turn, Visconti's film became an erotic tale primarily intended to arouse heterosexual male readers in the form of Ludwig, il folle di Baviera, a porn comic book conceived as a spoof published while the film was still in post-production. As well as considering the general relationship between mainstream cinema and pornographic comics and their representation of homosexuality, this article analyzes Ludwig, il folle di Baviera as a re-adaptation of Visconti's film that exploits the director's peculiar image in order to handle its ambiguous sexual content.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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