The Celluloid Closet Comments

  • Crawford 2022-12-24 10:26:52

    Things do get better... I personally ♥ sissies/cross-dressers/MtFs, no matter what these characters meant in the media & what other ppl think of...

  • Daphnee 2022-10-31 18:41:26

    Even now some people clamor that Hollywood homosexual movies are the representative of the so-called zzzq, they cannot change how many long struggles it takes to obtain the right of expression. People will never be able to eliminate homosexual images on the screen, just like in real life they cannot be Destroy the...

  • Marcelina 2022-10-15 08:23:59

    Studying the step-by-step changes in the perspective of Hollywood homosexual film history, curiosity, misinterpretation, humiliation, persecution, belief, love, appreciation, struggle, rights, light joy... In addition to blood and tears, I am filled with emotion. What I can see from this film is the constant power of film as a free cultural carrier over time, and it is the diversity and expansion of topics that make same-sex films have such extraordinary beauty and importance! 【I have seen so...

  • Dorthy 2022-10-11 03:18:21

    In fact, the Hayes Code cast a spell on the film and at the same time gave the film of that period a different style. The lines full of metaphors and the pictures of lingering words added to the charm of the film. . . PS There is actually much more about the gay plot in old movies than in the documentary. This documentary can only be regarded as the...

  • Brionna 2022-10-10 21:07:15

    Film class homework, if not forcing me to watch, black and white and documentaries are not my type. From the early days of homosexuality looking for clues that may be unconscious in the film, it is unreasonable not to intersperse one or two gays in the film now. After seeing the many clips at the end of the film, I was a little...

  • Karson 2022-09-21 08:56:32

    Another angle on the history of Hollywood cinema, The Origins of the Heath Code, adapted from Victor Russell's essay. Movies are dreams, and we are...

  • Alden 2022-09-20 09:09:10

    There are a lot of interesting black and white films in it. I have seen few of them, and some of those who have seen them don’t think about the same...

  • Glennie 2022-09-09 23:34:33

    The gay in the film, the film name has a double meaning, to be written. ....

  • Tillman 2022-07-07 23:09:46

    "Hollywood is the biggest myth-maker, creating a whole set of public expressions about homosexuality for heterosexuals, and homosexuality also creating a whole set of ideas about how to see yourself." When classic gay films such as "The Philadelphia Story" are followed by The two dancing men in Edison's experimental film in 1895. Behind the 100-year history of same-sex film image changes is the real and sincere same-sex love in...

  • Emery 2022-07-07 21:26:52

    Ideally, censorship leads people to...

Extended Reading
  • Genesis 2022-07-07 15:56:52

    Vito Russo

    Five stars for Vito Russo's (1946-1990) seminal research and the century-old history of social change depicted in the film.

    The Celluloid Closet reveals how queers are represented in Hollywood films. They lived in shadows, stood for being bullied, and most often ended up dying as punishment for...

  • Declan 2022-07-07 17:22:50

    Staged Development Summary

    From the two men dancing in Edison's experimental short film in 1895 to the birth of this documentary in 1995, the period is the history of the development of Hollywood gay films spanning a hundred years. Interview the filmmaker to record the image of gays on the screen, and make a pertinent...

The Celluloid Closet quotes

  • Harvey Fierstein: Every time I watched a straight scene I had to do this massive translation for myself. Then I did Torch Song Trilogy. I get these straight people saying to me 'you know, it's not really gay, it's universal'. I say 'up yours, it's gay'. That you can take it and apply it to yourself is wonderful, but at last I don't have to do the translating, you do.

  • Harvey Fierstein: I liked the sissy. Is it used in negative ways? Yeah, but, my view has always been visibility at any cost. I'd rather have negative than nothing.