“Il closet e la finestra, ovvero ‘What’s Love Got to Do with It’? Note su Brokeback Mountain”.

In this article the author provides a reading of Annie Proulx’s short story and of Ang Lee’s movie. While analyzing the market-oriented tensions toward domestication, containment and mainstreaming inside and beside the movie, the author stresses its political value and suggests a gay activist appropriation of it. Refocusing the plot from the point of view of the pursuit of happiness rather than reading it as a love story, and understanding happiness through the “fix it or stand it” binary offered by the movie itself, this reading re-casts the movie as an open invitation to queer activism and social intervention.