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INTRODUCTION Queer Cinema/Counter Cinema Directors INTRODUCTION Queer cinema/counter cinema Directors Sally Potter Todd Haynes Kathryn Bigelow Ang Lee Learning Outcome 1. Develop the skills of detailed, analytic and discriminating reading and interpretation of films 1 SEXUAL MINORITIES IN MAINSTREAM FILMS Sexual minorities tend to be killed off/remain unhappy Or are ignored completely (Gerbner – symbolic annihilation) Perhaps why counter cinema/women’s cinema emerged 2 FREE FLOATING IDENTITIES Foucault – identity as free-floating Not connected to essence Identity not determined by gender, class, ethnicity, age, sexuality How we choose to behave No real, true identity (link to postmodernism) Queer theory – anything that is different to the mainstream norms. Includes queer reading of films e.g. The Celluloid Closet Trailer 3 COUNTER CINEMA Group of films, film makers, institutions which set themselves against Hollywood Counter discourses Challenge codes and conventions No safe narrative But people may enjoy mainstream Hollywood cinema Counter cinema can be alienating and hard work e.g. Thriller (1979, Sally Potter) 4 WOMEN’S CINEMA Some suggest that women’s cinema needs to be counter cinema Others suggest women’s cinema can work within the mainstream. Bechdel Test Women’s cinema my refer to films made by female directors (Bigelow) Women’s cinema – films addressed to or concerned with women Guilty pleasures of watching mainstream representations 5 DIRECTOR: SALLY POTTER Women’s cinema as counter cinema Orlando (1992) Based on Virginia Woolf novel where the main character keeps being reborn in different centuries. Ending as a woman. Rage (2009) A young blogger at a New York fashion house shoots behind-the-scenes interviews on his cell- phone. Ginger and Rosa (2012) A look at the lives of two teenage girls - inseparable friends Ginger and Rosa -- growing up in 1960s London as the Cuban Missile Crisis looms, and the pivotal event that comes to redefine their relationship. 6 http://sallypotter.com/ DIRECTOR TODD HAYNES Very successful gay director Underground roots in experimental cinema Confrontational approach to representing gayness Superstar (1987) Barbie dolls depict Karen Carpenter and her anorexia Poison (1991) three stories: Hero, Horror, Homo Safe (1995) need for society to label; experience being placed outside society Velvet Goldmine- (1998) journalist investigating faked death publicity stunt of David Bowie-esque rock star I’m not there - (2007) portraying the life and legend of Bob Dylan through seven fictional characters played by six 7 actors including Cate Blanchett KATHRYN BIGELOW Well known female director in action genre Often defined in terms of relationship to ex-husband Point Break (1991) Strange Days (1995) The Hurt Locker (2008) Zero Dark Thirty (2012) 8 ANG LEE ‘I’m a drifter and an outsider. There’s not one single environment I can totally belong to.’ Sense and Sensibility (1995) Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (2000) Brokeback Mountain (2005) film is made for mainstream audience and may suggest that love between men can flourish when it is remote locations away from others Life of Pi (2012) – identity/conforming to norms? 9 SUMMARY Queer theory/queer film/queer readings Counter cinema and others e.g. women’s cinema Director Sally Potter Director Todd Haynes Director Kathryn Bigelow Director Ang Lee Assignment 2: Are dominant discourses challenged by queer cinema? Analyse a range of films in relation to one topic from the module. Seminar today – individual feedback on assignment 1. 10 REFERENCES Benshoff , H. & Griffin, S. (2004) America on Film. Oxford, Blackwell. Russo, V. (1981) The Celluloid Closet, Where, Harper Collins Leyda, J. (2012) Something that is dangerous and arousing and transgressive. An interview with Todd Haynes, Bright Lights Film Journal. [Online] Available at: http://brightlightsfilm.com/something-that-is-dangerous-and- arousing-and-transgressive-an-interview-with-todd- haynes/#.VSuYs9zF-Sq [Accessed 20th March 2015]. Pulver, A. () Women in the film Industry, The Guardian [Online] Available at: http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/jan/15/women-in- film-industry-celluloid-ceiling [Accessed 13th April 2015]. 11 .
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