The Celluloid Closet

The Celluloid Closet is a documentary directed/written by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman. The film shows numerous clips of actors who act in the role as a gay, bisexual, transgender, or a lesbian character. This movie gives the audience a great insight of what it like to make a movie like that in Hollywood. They interview men and women who either portray as a character in the film, by giving their personal experience what it like to be that character they portray, or either directed/written a movie

negative depictions of homosexuality. Such portrayals were so focused on silencing queer people and basically putting their emotions in the “closet.” A documentary The Celluloid Closet, which is based on The Celluloid Closet book by Vito Russo, analyzes the representation of gays and lesbians in Hollywood films from the 1890s to the 1980s. The Celluloid Closet argues that Hollywood’s portrayal of gays and lesbians has often been harsh and homophobic, which led gays and lesbians characters to be defined

The Celluloid Closet explores representation in film and its enormous effect on American culture. Although the film was originally released in 1995, many of the same issues around queer representation in media still remain over twenty years later. Gay characters are often the sidekick in stories revolving around heterosexual heroes, and queer stereotypes like “The Sissy” still persistent nearly 80 years after the character first appeared; and although queer erasure is not a prevalent as it was in

Dickie’s rejection of Tom’s suspected infatuation with him. This aligns with the strain of the gay villain in which “gay and lesbian characters...are no longer victims but victimizers -- psychopaths, who murder the objects of their affection” (The Celluloid Closet), particularly when they are rejected. Some statements offered during the decision

The Future of Oppression Black Mirror’s “San Junipero” is an episode that, on the surface, seems to be a simple love story between two women, Yorkie and Kelly. They meet in the virtual town of San Junipero, a town that feels very real, but is essentially a simulation where they can be ‘uploaded’ when they ‘pass over’, their consciousnesses permanently stored in the cloud, alive in the virtual town. Both are still living but are close to death and are in San Junipero as ‘tourists’, allowed to test-drive

The documentary The Celluloid Closet discusses the evolution of gay and lesbian films. “From the very beginning movies could rely on homosexuality as a surefire source of humor”. Being gay was used as a source of comedy to the film industry. They mocked gay people with using gay/lesbian cameos in popular films as a form of entertainment. Which brings about the Sissy, Hollywood's first run-of-the-mill gay character. “The Sissy made everyone feel more manly or more womanly by occupying the space in

a platform for the creators to introduce sexual ambiguity in order to desensitize young viewers from heterocentrist ways. This approach to queer subtext has been has always been a part of Western media as we as we explored in the film “The Celluloid Closet” (1995). Queer representation for many years was an continuous uncategorized personification that was vaguely acknowledged but to those who understood the subtext, it became an undercurrent of complex coded information that eventually paved the

There are many stereotypes and false depictions that gravitate amongst different ethnicities, genders, and sexualities in television and film. We are all affected by this in positive and negative ways, there is no hiding from it. Although, what is one to do if they are constantly ridiculed because of who or what they are based on their own sexuality? Gay men are often seen in television shows and films as flamboyant and lesbian women are often seen to be this type of masculine-type female try to

impact of media representation. Before we can look forward, we must look back at queer representation of the past. The late film scholar Vito Russo painstakingly researched the evolution of queer representation in cinema in his landmark book The Celluloid Closet. In both the book and its documentary of the same name, Russo details the earliest portrayal of homosexuality in

strides of queer representation in all ages media, it is important to look back at queer representation in the past. The late film scholar Vito Russo painstakingly researched the evolution of queer representation in cinema in his landmark book The Celluloid Closet. In both the book and the documentary based of the book, Russo details the