Queer Final

1. Emma Tani

2.  History
 1920’s-Present
 Hollywood’s influence

3.  Disguised sexuality
 Lesbians sexualized
 Stereotyping
 Gays and lesbians as
pedophiles
 Boys Beware, Carol
 Gays and lesbians as
villains
 Hitchcock films
Boys Beware, 1961

4.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmdOl
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 Gigli
 Sexualizing

5.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zhi8f9EWdt4
 Rope
 Disguised sexuality
 Villains

6.  Celluloid Closet
 “Hollywood had learned to write movies between
the lines.”
 “If a director was subtle enough or clever enough,
they got around it.”
The Celluloid Closet. Dir. Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman. Song Picture Classics, 1996. Film.

7.  “The creation of a
lesbian film criticism is
particularly urgent,
given the intensified
use of the lesbian as a
negative sign in
Hollywood movies
and the continuing
space assigned to
lesbians as
gratification of male
fantasy”- Creekmur,
Doty
Creekmur, Corey, and Alexander Doty. 1995. Out in Culture: Gay, Lesbian, and Queer Essays on Popular Culture. Duke
University Press.
Basic Instinct,1992