Please remember to avoid footnotes and to include an
alphabetical list of 'References' which have been cited in the text
(not a Bibliography of anything you have read for the essay). This list should include
author's names, date, book titles (in italics), place of publication and publisher.
Within the text always cite author's surname, date and page number. Double-space your
text and number your pages.
Guidance for this assignment:
One obviously relevant film is
Sebastiane (Paul Humfress & Derek Jarman 1976); others are
Un Chant d'Amour (Jean Genet 1950)
and
Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee 2005). However,
Do not confine yourself to
films shown in the module's screening sessions.
An investigation of
audience responses (e.g. interviews) would be an advantage.
At all costs, avoid 'moralising' about the subject -
about what film-makers or policymakers should or should not do about this -
stick to the topic!
Note also that this is an assignment for which the
inclusion of relevant pictorial illustrations may be useful.
Use these to illustrate particular points. Contrasting
one with another can also be productive.
Incorporate illustrations electronically into your text (e.g. by
scanning or downloading from the Internet) rather than literally cutting and pasting.
For guidance on capturing stills, click here.
Some suggested reading
- Berger, Peter & Thomas Luckmann (1991)
The Social Construction of Reality. Harmondsworth: Penguin
[difficult, but a classic]
- Bergling, Tim (2001)
Sissyphobia: Gay Men and Effeminate Behavior. New York: Harrington Park Press
- Bourne, Stephen (1996)
Brief Encounters: Lesbians and Gays in British Cinema 1930-1971.
London: Cassell
- Chandler, Daniel (1997)
'Media Representation' [WWW document] URL
http://users.aber.ac.uk/dgc/Modules/FM34120/represent.html
- Clum, John M. (2002)
He's All Man: Learning Masculinity, Gayness, and Love from American Movies.
London: Palgrave
- Cohan, Stephen & Ina Rae Hark (Eds.) (1993)
Screening the Male. London: Routledge
- Craig, Steve (Ed.) (1992)
Men, Masculinity and the Media. Newbury Park, CA: Sage
- Dixon, Wheeler Winston (2003)
Straight: Constructions of Heterosexuality in the Cinema.
(Suny Series, Cultural Studies in Cinema/Video). New York: State University of New York Press
- Dyer, Richard (Ed.) (1977)
Gays and Film. London: British Film Institute
[recommended]
- Dyer, Richard (1990)
Now You See It: Studies on Lesbian and Gay Film.
London: Routledge [recommended]
- Dyer, Richard (1993)
The Matter of Images: Essays on Representation.
London: Routledge [recommended]
- Farmer, Brett (2000)
Spectacular Passions: Cinema, Fantasy, Gay Male Spectatorships.
Durham, NC: Duke University Press
- Fuss, Diane (Ed) (1991)
Inside/Out: Lesbian Theories, Gay Theories.
London: Routledge
- Gever, Martha, John Greyson & Pratibha Parmar (Eds) (1993)
Queer Looks: Perspectives on Lesbian and Gay
Film and Video. London: Routledge
- Greenberg, David F. (1988)
The Construction of Homosexuality. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press
- Hadleigh, Boze (2001)
The Lavender Screen: The Gay and Lesbian Films - Their Stars, Makers,
Characters, and Critics. New York: Citadel
- Jackson, Stevi (1999)
Heterosexuality in Question. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage
- Kabir, Shameem (1998)
Daughters of Desire: Lesbian Representations in Film. London: Cassell
- Keller, James R. (2002)
Queer (Un)Friendly Film and Television.
Jefferson, NC: McFarland
- Leung, William (2008)
'So Queer Yet So Straight: Ang Lee's The Wedding Banquet and Brokeback Mountain',
Journal of Film and Television 60(1): 23-42
- Mellen, Joan (1978)
Big Bad Wolves: Masculinity in the American Film.
London: Elm Tree
- Munday, Rod (2005)
'Critique Audience Reactions to Same Sex Romantic Screen Kisses'
[WWW document] URL
http://users.aber.ac.uk/dgc/media/Students/ram0211.html (student essay)
- Needham, Gary (2010)
Brokeback Mountain. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press
- Patterson, Eric (2008)
On 'Brokeback Mountain': Meditations about Masculinity, Fear, and Love in the Story and the Film. New York: Lexington
- Phillips, Adam (1994)
On Kissing, Tickling and Being Bored. London: Faber & Faber
- Proudfoot, Ross (2004)
'Critique Audience Reactions to Same Sex Romantic Screen Kisses'
[WWW document] URL
http://users.aber.ac.uk/dgc/media/Students/rpp0202.doc (student essay)
- Richardson, Diane (1996) 'Heterosexuality and Social Theory'. In Diane Richardson (Ed)
Theorizing Heterosexuality: Telling it Straight. Buckingham: Open University Press, pp. 1-20
- Russo, Vito (1987)
The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies.
New York: HarperCollins
- Shakir, Shanaz (2006)
'Critique Audience Reactions to Same Sex Romantic Screen Kisses'
[WWW document] URL
http://users.aber.ac.uk/dgc/media/Students/szs0405.pdf (student essay)
- Stacy, Jim (Ed) (2007)
Reading 'Brokeback Mountain'. Jefferson, NC: McFarland
- Waugh, Thomas (1993)
'The Third Body: Patterns in the Construction of the Subject in Gay Male Narrative Film', in
Martha Gever, Pratibha Parmar & John Greyson (Eds) (1993)
Queer Looks: Perspectives on Lesbian and Gay Film and Video. London: Routledge, pp. 141-61; also in
Nicholas Mirzoeff (Ed) (2002)
The Visual Culture Reader. London: Routledge, pp. 636-53
Note: Treat with extreme caution sources labelled with this symbol!