Political Science 2142A/B Lecture Notes - George Cukor, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Magnus Hirschfeld
11 Feb 2021
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These characters sometimes eluded the production code censors. Plenty of films use a single queer character as the butt of homophobic jokes: authorship: it was written, directed, or produced by queer people, or star queer actors. Many films made by queer directors in hollywood"s classical period (james whale, george cukor, Dorothy arzner) could not feature obvious gay characters or issues. Films read from a queer viewing experience, one that challenges dominant assumptions about gender and sexuality. p. 10. Reading hollywood films against the grain, known as camp , evolved within early-twentieth-century gay cultures, p. 10. Top gun (1986) a military action film that has become a queer cult film because of its incessant beefcake, suggestive word play, and intense homosocial bonding. p. 10. Queer film theorist clare whatling argued that films are lesbianised by the individual (or in some cases collective) viewer. p. 10.
