Ball culture

are troubled so they eventually have meet others who are experiencing the same situations, and slowly they have formed a subcultural group called the “ball culture” - the house system or ballroom community to describe an underground LGBT subculture in the United States in which people "walk" and compete for trophies and prizes at events known as balls. In the movie Paris is Burning many of the like minded people were gathered under one roof to start their newly formed underground activities. They immediately

US ballroom served as a home for escapees from reality and they acted as comfort zone where people could seek acceptance for whoever they wanted to be. Wealth, glamour and status are important factors in Ballroom culture. Different houses organized event which were referred to as balls and the houses could meet and compete against each other in various categories. A judge chosen by the house would then

The film aimed to explore an underground queer space, the Harlem ball scene of the 1980s, in which predominantly black and Latinx queer people caricatured gender by participating in elaborately orchestrated drag competitions (Livingston). In Paris Is Burning, Livingston intersperses testimony by scene members about their subversive performances and their lives with videos of the performances of drag that take place within the scene. The documentary was praised for being counter-hegemonic as its subject

Paris is Burning We recently watched the film Paris is Burning, a documentary about black drag queens in Harlem and their culture surrounding balls. Directly related we also read two feminist critiques, Gender is Burning: Questions of Appropriation and Subversion by Judith Butler and Is Paris Burning by bell hooks. Two areas of critique I focus on and question are the critiques regarding the filmmaker, audience and drag queens and how they participate to reinforce a heterosexual racist patriarchy

the roots of voguing can be traced back to the masquerade balls of the Harlem Renaissance, it wasn’t really until the mid-1960’s when gay men of color were performing drag in Harlem ballrooms, that a new and fresh style of dance began to evolve, combining poses and gestures integrated with angular, linear and rigid arm, leg and body movements from magazine covers, such as Vogue (in which the dance got its name from). Underground Ball culture development allowed gay youth of color a venue to express

The documentary, “Paris is Burning” follows individuals involved in New York’s “ball culture” during the late ‘80’s and early ‘90’s, which included Black, Latino, gay, and transgender individuals (Green, 1993). Many of the participants in the balls lived in “Houses” which serve not only as a team for ball competitions, but also as a family (Green, 1993). These houses are a place of safety since many individuals are rejected by their families of origin (Green, 1993). The subjects of the film face

the white gay community of people/all good people in the world. The story structure of Tongues Untied is both interesting and unusual. Besides including fact-filled story or film about an event or person video detailing North American black gay culture, Riggs also tells of his own experiences as a gay man. These include the understanding/ achieving a goal of his sexual identity and of successfully dealing with the deaths of many of his friends to AIDS. Other elements within the film include video

of Paris is Burning either in preparation for a ball or framed by her trophies cast in a rich red-orange artificial light, except for when she first makes her grand appearance on film. Her introduction begins before she is even visible. She says, “Liz Taylor is famous. So is Pepper Labeija. In a sense so am I” (9:48) alongside a track of music which fades in and out as she speaks non-diagetically over a clip of Pepper Labeija voguing at a ball. This serves as a transition cut to a medium shot

the ball farther than normal, having an advantage during slippery weather,

In the west, Japan is a country known for bustling cities, bullet trains, a rich history of samurai, and wacky popular culture. Two facets of Japanese popular media that have exploded onto a global scale are manga and anime. The western world considers manga “Japanese comic books and graphic novels considered collectively as a genre” 1. In Japan however, manga refers to any sort of comic style work, whether produced in Japan by Japanese people or otherwise. The term anime (an abbreviation for animation)