Queer theory-
the theory came about in 1990, due to homosexuals becoming more accepted.
Judith Butler- 1999
Suggests gender is not the result of nature but is socially constructed.
Gender is a performance.
Gender trouble- not playing up to conceived gender roles
500 Days of summer- gender roles are subverted
The way they are is down to their backgrounds
Audience- judge Summer
align with Tom
Male spectators- Not able to align with Summer or Tom
Want Tom to be more macho
Female spectators- Negotiated reading
Attraction with Tom would be through the sympathy we feel for him
Homosexuality-
Male phenomenon
Lesbianism was never cited in law- male dominated, submissive women
1950s laws to stop men taking part in sexual activities with other men
Homosexuality was classed as a mental illness until 1990
Heterosexuality is still the norm
Homophobia belongs in the past
Brokeback Mountain (2006)
First mainstream Hollywood film dealing with overtly homosexuality
Satisifies the female desire
Heath Ledger
Jake Glynnehal
Actively aware they are gay
compulsory heterosexuality sets itself as the original, the true, the authentic; the norm that determines the real and implies that ‘being’ a lesbian is always a kind of miming, a vain effort to participate in the phantasmatic plenitude of naturalized heterosexuality which will always and only fail (Butler, 312.)”
Similar to Linda Williams
Derek P. Rucas
When a gay person watches a homosexual film it brings a much more emotionally charged element to the spectator (empathy for coming out or suppressed) .
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