Re-cap Report
Gay Film Work: Affecting but too evasive
This article was written by Roy
Olsen in 1979 for the 20th issue of Jump Cut.
This article was extremely important
to my research as it directly linked to my aim - "to show that
homosexuals, when shown at all, where used for entertainment purposes or to be
used as a form of "other" which the other characters compare
themselves to. They are also mostly shown as the victim.
"My dominant concern
throughout is with the instrumentality of film for gay liberation." -
this is good as it cleanly and plainly tells us what the article is about and
what issues he will be tackling.
"Confessional films,
documentaries of gay events or circumstances, and short parodies or satires of
straight prejudice and gay stereotypes." Although this is simply talking about the films
shown in the festival he went to, these types of films are the most common
genres that LGBT films are made up of.
The
frequency of comedy can be seen by the following films:
He says that some films are "educational' films on controversial topics"
"Comedy is aimed primarily at gay and sympathetic straight audiences" – this clearly tells us that only these audience members would find the comedy amusing, and that the other groups would find it insulting or offensive.
Monsters in the Closet: Homosexuality
and the Horror Film
This book
was written by Harry M. Benshoff in 1997
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