Valeria Visconti Diva: Futura 'link'
Valeria Visconti has received several awards and accolades, including:
For decades, Visconti was dismissed as simply a hardcore performer. However, contemporary feminist film scholars (e.g., Elena Dalla Torre, 2023) have begun reclaiming her. They argue that Visconti’s performance style prefigures what would later be called “cooling out” in the face of the male gaze—a radical refusal to perform pleasure for the spectator.