Read one of the film theories in this article: Research Film Theory
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| – How many of them have internalized homophobia?
– Is there any other meanings of the word Queer?
-It in fact did, but how did this help the LGBTQ+ community? -Why do they usually focus on male-male working relationships?
-Which is great but will we get more of those types of movies on the big screen?
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-Estimated that gay people comprise at least 10 percent of the U.S population
-“The word queer has a range of meanings..it can refer to any piece of literary criticism that interprets a text from a nonstraight perspective…[but] queer criticism [also] reads texts to reveal the [problems in certain texts]” -Rocky film suggests that sexuality exists on a wide spectrum, not a simple heterosexual/homosexual binary. -While queer theory might traditionally be applied to examine how homosexual, transgender, etc. characters are portrayed, the dearth of such characters in the trilogy leads us to apply this lens a bit differently—more specifically, by examining the films’ abundance of male-male working- -Queer criticism can interpret and identify issues with queer representation in a work of art -Identifies whether there is any homophobia and/or transphobia present in the work and whether it is explicit or implicit -Queer theory seeks to challenge the idea of heterosexuality as normative |
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