Overcoming the Stigma: The Queer Denial of Indiewood

Goode's and Hoult's names are removed from the final moments of the trailer; the gay kiss is removed; and there is a conspicuously unsubtle attempt at pushing both Firth and Moore for Academy Awards-we even get a quote from Playboy describing the film as "a movie of beauty, mystery, v...

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Published in:	Journal of film and video 2016-04, Vol.68 (1), p.19-30
Main Author:	Richards, Stuart
Format:	Article
Language:	eng
Subjects:	Audiences Austen, Jane (1775-1817) Beliefs, opinions and attitudes British & Irish literature Brokeback Mountain Cinema Cinema and Film Studies Cinema, Broadcasting, Interactive Media Criticism and interpretation Critics Cultural capital dramatic arts English literature Film criticism Ford, Tom Gay rights movements Gays & lesbians History and criticism Hollywood Homophobia homosexuality independent filmmakers Independent Films Lee, Ang LGBT Marketing Motion picture audiences Motion picture industry Motion Pictures Movies Narratives Portrayals Quality Queer Cinema Queer culture Queer studies Queer theology Sexual minorities Sexual minorities in motion pictures Social aspects Stigma Trailers United States Woolf, Virginia (1882-1941)
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Summary:	Goode's and Hoult's names are removed from the final moments of the trailer; the gay kiss is removed; and there is a conspicuously unsubtle attempt at pushing both Firth and Moore for Academy Awards-we even get a quote from Playboy describing the film as "a movie of beauty, mystery, visual dazzle, and emotional resistance." Reviews for Brokeback Mountain failed to highlight the challenge this narrative offered to rural homophobia: "Perhaps by framing the story of Ennis del Mar and Jack Twist as so universal, while paradoxically positioning queers into peculiar heteronormative space, and simultaneously framing homophobia as a past problem that has been basically solved in the 21st century, critics inadvertently marginalized Brokeback's potential to help society effect real change in the lives of gays and lesbians" (Cooper and Pease 265).
ISSN:	0742-4671 1934-6018 1934-6018