Homosocial Bonding in Film How Men Are Portrayed in Cinema
Homosocial Bonding in Film How men are portrayed in cinema. How the American masculinity is changing (and not). How male-male relationships are represented. A discussion of traditional masculinity shaping new forms of masculinity. Homosexuality Homosociality
• of, relating to, or involving social • OED: The quality of being homosexual relationships between persons of • OED: A person who has a sexual propensity for his or her own sex; esp. one whose sexual the same sex and esp. between desires are directed wholly or largely towards men people of the same sex. • ‘Friendships’
Thesis
• Male homosocial relationships in film are represented by the context of violence and aggression, traits associated with traditional forms of masculinity, particularly in war films and westerns.
Top Gun (1986)
Complications
• “film has profound implications for • “homophobia-in that the both the cinematic construction possibility of homosocial bonds of American masculinity…and might include homosexuality and for… representation of queer had to be rigorously and violently sexuality” denied” War Films
• Thin Red Line • Platoon • Full Metal Jacket • Jarhead • Saving Private Ryan • Lone Survivor • Letters from Iwo Jima • Black Hawk Down • Thirty Seconds over Tokyo • The Deer Hunter Thirty Seconds over Tokyo( 1944) Jarhead (2005) Jarhead (2005)
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsV5BO5gXzE Westerns The (Homosexual) Cowboy
Lonesome Cowboys (1968) Midnight Cowboys (1969) Brokeback Mountain (2005) Brokeback Mountain (2005)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxFclMNiuvI Bibliography
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