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certainwoman · 1 year

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Vito Russo, The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies

#vito russo #the celluloid closet #dirk bogarde

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perlukafarinn · 5 months

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Anyway, watch The Celluloid Closet, it's on youtube and it's based on one of the most important and comprehensive texts of queer film analyses written in the 20th century.

(It's also not plagiarized or riddled with factual errors)

#the celluloid closet #hbomberguy #james somerton

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fabiansociety · 6 months

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sometimes the internet is still good — i checked out a copy of the celluloid closet from the library, and vito russo talks about this pro-gay movie funded by the hirschfeld institute and starring conrad veidt, and how it's been lost, and you know there's a copy on the internet archive for free? it's not the complete movie — that was apparently successfully destroyed by the nazis, or at least a complete version hasn't turned up yet — but it's more than was available when the book came out, and it's just… it's there. you can watch it. the nazis tried to destroy it and they failed and now you can watch it. it got censored so hard a year after it came out that you could only see it if you were a doctor or a lawyer and it's just free now. that's wonderful.

#different from the others #conrad veidt #magnus hirschfeld #the celluloid closet #vito russo

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gayiconwaluigi · 4 months

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I’ve seen people criticize Asteroid City for obfuscating the story unnecessarily, and I have to say that if you’ve read The Celluloid Closet or seen the documentary, you’d know the layers of meaning imbued in Hays Code films that couldn’t be expressed explicitly. The love story between Jones and Conrad frames the play and the themes of isolation and alienation queer people felt in the 1950s are written in the play. The movie is about subtext made textual through telling the lives of the queer people who made the play a reality.

#asteroid city #Wes Anderson #jones hall #Conrad Earp #films #asteroid city 2023 #jason schwartzman #augie steenbeck #midge Campbell #the celluloid closet #celluloid closet #hays code

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celluloidrainbow · 8 months

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THE CELLULOID CLOSET (1995) dir. Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman This documentary highlights the historical contexts that gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgenders have occupied in cinema history, and shows the evolution of the entertainment industry's role in shaping perceptions of LGBT figures. The issues addressed include secrecy - which initially defined homosexuality - as well as the demonization of the community with the advent of AIDS, and finally the shift toward acceptance and positivity in the modern era. (link in title)

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thestarkster1465 · 2 months

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Haven't been following the James Somerton drama closely but it's become so ridiculous that it's funny

Is no one going to talk about the fact that he said that he thought it was okay for him to mention Vito Russo in the opening credits and then never mention him again because his book was out of print and Russo was dead....

And then in the same breath say that he was 'extending Russo's legacy' like my brother in Christ do you even hear yourself-

#hbomberguy #james somerton #vito russo #the celluloid closet #like lmao wtf #also the reason he plagiarized was because uh *clears throat*#he is ADHD and his mom had cancer and then she died and his father was grieving and he has epilepsy and memory issues and ajdjkdkskakskhdh #sorry my brain fizzled out #not saying thag life isn't harder because of all these things #BUT NONE OF THEM MADE YOU A SHITTY PERSON JAMES #THAT WAS ALL YOU. YOUR FAULT.#also apparently the other reason he took words from smaller queer creators was because people would listen to him as a cis white man #and not to them #fuck you james #hes so pathetic its funny #but then i remember how many people he has hurt #oh by the way edited versions of his videos are back up because nick should have his own portfolio #sure james sure #its all for nick

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markiafc · 10 days

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in the celluloid closet 1995, when richard dyer talks about the indirect expression of queerness found in films w/ queer subtext. the multiple layers behind this approach: the characters are keeping a secret, the film is keeping a secret, and the audience who knows this unspoken secret is keeping it too. everyone is in the closet together. it's a quote from the documentary i think about forever and ever, various reasons and through various angles. the repressed and silenced audience can connect, can relate, can identify themselves in a repressed and silent picture.

#me is mark #the celluloid closet #whether its a repressed sexuality #or its a repressed something else that the subtext embodies #there are ways to express things that can't be said #for the people who can't say it out loud but need it expressed

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ninjakittenarmy · 4 months

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Something’s been bugging me about Sommerton. And I don’t mean the… well, everything. Something minor that HBomberGuy mentioned.

See, when people realized his video Codebreakers was just The Celluloid Closet and a few other stolen sources, he took it down and reuploaded it as “Queering Cinema (By Any Means Necessary)”.

What the fuck does that mean? “By any means necessary”? It’s literary analysis from a queer perspective. That’s the means. What other means could you possibly use? By any means necessary implies that you may need to do something more drastic. You gonna like, force Hollywood to come up with more queer interpretations of movies via force of arms?

The title refers to queer readings of existing movies, so it’s not about pressuring them to make more queer coded movies. It’s literary analysis, that’s the means. That’s it.

The only thing I could think of that could be considered drastic is making massive leaps and pulling readings out of your ass which I mean, Todd in the Shadows proved he loves making shit up but something tells me this implication wasn’t his intention, and the bulk of the video is already established readings (because he stole them).

#james somerton #hbomberguy #the celluloid closet #todd in the shadows

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dick-chugger · 2 months

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I'm finally watching The Celluloid Closet and my beautiful evil sons are here!!

#the celluloid closet #rope 1948

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momentsinreading · 5 months

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“They really fear lesbians. Because in some strange level, let us never forget the ever-expanding gaseous state of the male ego. Which is men still believe that women do everything in response to them. Therefore, for a lot of these guys, a woman’s a lesbian because she hasn’t had him. He will change this dolorous experience and she will of course love men because of him. The truth is, women aren’t lesbians because of men. Women are lesbians because of women: they love women! And that’s what drives them crazy, they don’t want to accept that central fact of lesbian life, which is it has nothing whatsoever to do with men. And never will.” — Rita Mae Brown in The Celluloid Closet

#rita mae brown #the celluloid closet #lesbians #lgbtq

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salaciouscrumbb · 4 months

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