CGS 105 Chapter Notes - Chapter Film Notes: The Celluloid Closet, Gay Bashing, Brown Hair

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4 Jul 2018

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UCSD

Department

Critical Gender Studies

Course

CGS 105

Professor

Roshanak Kheshti

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CGS 105 – Film Notes – The Celluloid Closet

Homosexuality rarely depicted

oWhen depicted, something to laugh at, pity, fear

Hollywood teaching straight people what to think about gay people, and gay people what to

think about themselves

Seeing movies because of small depiction of gays/lesbians

Looking for gay/lesbian images "to not be alone"

Homosexuality as a sure source of humor from the beginning

"…we learn from the movies what it means to be a man or a woman, what it means to have

sexuality"

Calling homosexuals 'freaks of nature'

Sissy: first gay stock character

oSpace in-between manliness and womanliness

oDoesn't have sexuality

o"It wasn't discussed, but you knew"

oProblematic

Seeing as offensive

"…I'd rather have negative than nothing"

o"There's no sin like being a woman"

Women in tuxedos appealing to women and men

Queen Christina

oBased on story of a lesbian monarch

oHollywood changed story, but some traces

Kissing woman

Not going to marry

Will Hayes, Postmaster General, heading first effort to censor movies

oFailed, was not taken seriously

Legion of Decency rated movies and threatened Catholic boycotts, so Hollywood started to play

by the rules

A book about a confused alcoholic became a movie about an alcoholic with writer's block

A book about gay-bashing and murder became a movie about anti-Semitism and murder

"Decent people don't like this sort of stuff, and we are going to make sure they get none of it"

Codes made homosexuals harder to find on the screen, not erase them

oMade homosexuals into villains

Directors being subtle and gay characters/actions not being noticed

oUsing music

Censors turning a blind eye to lesbians, as long as they were crazy/in jail/etc.

oWarning to women

"In 50's America… seeming gay was almost as bad as being gay…"

oEffeminate = gay

Even if films don't mean to portray gay people, films tell a story that people interpret

Gay characters being killed for being outcasts

Gay subtext in stories in order to make them more believable, but the subtext doesn't become

real text

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

oGym full of men who pay no attention to brunette actress

DF Movie: Delayed Fuck; couldn't sleep together before marriage

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Cgs 105 film notes the celluloid closet. Homosexuality rarely depicted: when depicted, something to laugh at, pity, fear. Hollywood teaching straight people what to think about gay people, and gay people what to think about themselves. Seeing movies because of small depiction of gays/lesbians. Looking for gay/lesbian images "to not be alone" Homosexuality as a sure source of humor from the beginning. " we learn from the movies what it means to be a man or a woman, what it means to have sexuality" Space in-between manliness and womanliness: doesn"t have sexuality o o. Women in tuxedos appealing to women and men. Based on story of a lesbian monarch: hollywood changed story, but some traces. Will hayes, postmaster general, heading first effort to censor movies o. Legion of decency rated movies and threatened catholic boycotts, so hollywood started to play by the rules. A book about a confused alcoholic became a movie about an alcoholic with writer"s block.

CGS 105 Chapter Notes - Chapter Film Notes: The Celluloid Closet, Gay Bashing, Brown Hair

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