2. The Imitation game 2014 (Tyldum)
• This is a mainstream British film with many world
renowned actors
• It depicts the life and struggle of homosexual
cryptographer Alan Turing, who built the worlds
first electronic computer and saved millions of
lives by cracking the enigma code.
• The film uses flashbacks to show Turing's struggle
with homosexuality and hormone therapy (given
as punishment for his homosexuality)
• It is one of the first Gay mainstream films this
year
3. Pride 2014 (Warchus)
• A film that depicts the struggle of the LGBT community at
the time of the miners strike, under thatcher.
• It shows how these LGBT people unite with the struggling
miners in the face of universal hatred
• It has many well known British actors and household names
• Although most of the actors play homosexuals, very few
are, however this does not detract from a range of
wonderful performances.
• Warchus was very happy to deal with stereotypes and to
embrace them, but also to break them
• It also briefly touches on the terror that HIV began to have
on the LGBT community.
4. GBF 2013 (Stein)
• This will play a smalller role in my reasearch
than the other two films
• This film embraces and even breaks
stereotypes, by owning these preconceptions
they make them their own.
• The story of two gay friends and their
struggling in coming out and the
consequences therein.
5. Introduction to film studies edited by
Jill Nelmes (5th edition)
• This book has an entire chapter on LGBT
cinema and includes many useful quotes from
a wide range of film theorists.
• These include Babuscio
• It will provide the basis in theory that the films
may not give me
6. Out at the Cinema by Steven Paul
Davies
• This book is about LGBT films in the cinema
• It looks at all films and the different periods in
LGBT cinema including the pre-stonewall era
and modern ‘new queer cinema’
• This will reinforce the theory provided by ‘ an
introduction to film studies’
7. Article in the Independent newspaper
on Homophobia in hollywood
• http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/
films/features/homophobia-in-hollywood-
why-gay-movie-stars-still-cant-come-
out-of-the-closet-8455751.html
• This article looks at how the Hollywood
environment has a institutionalised
homophobic outlook on the world
8. An article in the Independent about
the Rating ‘pride’ was given in America
• http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/
films/features/pride-are-censors-pandering-
to-homophobia-9765935.html
• This article looks at whether the surprisingly high
rating of this film was due to Knee-jerk
Homophobia.
• It also mentions GBF which I am also looking at
• The article uses several examples to back up its
points which will be useful to expand upopn in
my final essay.
9. Article from the Guardian about
Hollywoods portrayal of LGBT people
• http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/jul/23/h
ollywood-criticised-lgbt-gay-characters-glaad
• This article includes several statistics which will
be useful to my reasearch
• It discuss the Vito Russo test which can be
applied to film to decide whether it is LGBT
friendly
• This article looks at the way Hollywood has
portrayed the LGBT community in its films in
2013
10. Other things that have been of use
• http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/112
30676/The-Imitation-Game-Homophobia-is-still-
with-us-60-years-after-the-death-of-Alan-
Turing.html
