Tears for Queers: Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain, Hollywood, and American Attitudes toward Homosexuality

“There Are No Ugly Men in Wakanda”: Black Panther, Spectatorship, and the Queer Male Gaze

“…In fact … [this] raises the question of whether, far from being an institution that shapes American social mores, Hollywood even adequately reflects contemporary attitudes toward issues such as homosexuality. (Piontek 132, author emphasis)…”

Pride and Pudency: Paratextual Domestication and the US DVD Release of Pride

“…Examining the film TransAmerica, Andre Cavalcante (2013) observes similar promotional tactics designed to disavow queer content. Likewise, numerous critics have discussed the ways the marketing of Brokeback Mountain reifies readings of the film either as a 'universal love story' or as a 'gay cowboy movie' (Cooper and Pease, 2008: 249), subsequently neutralising the film's troubling of heteronormativity in a quest to secure greater mainstream success (Cooper and Pease, 2008;San Filippo, 2013;Piontek, 2012). In these ways, domestication impacts on-screen representation.…”