About the film THE DETECTIVE.. "The actual visualisation of the gay scene can find no way round the impression of grotesque."
This quote is suggesting that a scene involving Gays romantically or sexually is always seen as disgusting and to make the audience member feel uncomfortable and although their have been attempts at contrasting this, There is no way around it being seen as grotesque.
About the film THE DETECTIVE.. "details some forms of our oppression (and self-oppression) takes. But all the same, it cannot help but reproduce the dominant image of gays"
This quote is basically telling us that although we may feel or told films are taking a huge step forward in terms of representation of homosexuality, They are still enforcing our ideology of Gays.
For example in my Case Study of Philadelphia, The film was seen to be a huge step forward for gays in film as it tackles homophobia and AIDS but this still links the two together and paints a negative image and it shows him going into a gay picture house where he will contract AIDs through sex which reinforces the ideology that AIDs is a gay disease.
"Gayness is used to define the parameters of normality, to suggest thrill and/or terror of decadence, to embody neurotic sexuality, or to perform various artistic-ideological functions that in the end assert the superiority of heterosexuality."
"We've tended to demand that gay characters and themes be represented to according to certain ideas and ideals about what art is, without seeing that such ideas and ideals are straight ones, not neutral or transparent but imbued with a sexual ideology that has anti-gayness as one of its cornerstones."
About the film THE DETECTIVE.. "It sets out to be sympathetic, puts a major star (Frank Sinatra) as a liberal defender of gays (in what he says, if not altogether in what he does), and details some of the forms our oppression (and altogether in what he does), And details some forms of our oppression (and self-oppression) takes. But all the same, It cannot help reproduce the dominant image of gays.
About the film THE DETECTIVE.. "The gay scene can only legitimately be shown at points in the points in the plot relating to crime"
About the film THE DETECTIVE.. ".. enforces the link between gayness, deviancy and crime."
"What we need is not the replacement of stereotypes by rounded gay characters, but rather the development of positively valued gay types. This is representation of gay people which, on the one hand, functions against stereotypes, for it does not deny individual differences from the broad category to which the individual belongs."
"Anti-Gayness is not a discrete ideological system, but part of the overall sexual ideology of our culture."
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