Brokeback Research Papers Samples For Students

Introduction

Brokeback Mountain, Ang Lee’s film, is a phenomenon in American culture and has drawn discourses on the subject of culture like no other. The movie explores the love and lives of two homosexual sheep herders from Wyoming Texas in the period between 1963 and 1983. The two ranch hands spend their 1963 summer looking after sheep in a Texas mountainside and eventually fall in love (Gyllenhaal, 2006). After the summer ends, the two men proceed to marry and have separate families without contact with each other. However, the affection they had once felt for each other brings them back together. ...

With the end of the Hollywood production code and the introduction of the rating system, western filmmakers are being encouraged to depict homosexual relationships in their films. Despite the censorship of such films by the state administrations, there are some Chinese filmmakers who persist in representing homosexual love. In this paper we will use three films produced in the eastern and western worlds to analyze the homosexual representation of love in the new millennium. The chosen films are Lan Yu(2001) directed by Stanley Kwan, Brokeback Mountain(2005) directed by Ang Lee and A Single Man(2009) directed by ...

Management

Thesis statement
Brokeback Mountain qualifies among the most controversial movies produced in 2005. Its analysis has been done from a political, social and moral point of view and has been a subject of criticism by political experts, the audience who have branded it as unacceptable because it will corrupt the morals of the society, since its initial release due its theme which is homosexuality.

Background

The title of the film is called Brokeback Mountain which was released initially on September 3, 2005 in USA (United States of America). The DVD was later released on April 4, 2006.The movie was directed by ...

Introductory Remarks

At this point, it is no secret the American society shows a degree of tolerance lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgendered individuals never enjoyed in the 20th century. The question emerges of why it is that people have grown more tolerant towards and supportive of LGBT individuals. Media categories, such as television and films considered the carriers of culture, influence people’s perception, as does the culture itself shaping it. Thus, the way such phenomenon as same-sex relationships along with their participants are depicted in television and movies determines how tolerantly the society will perceive such people. The major research ...

Ang Lee’s The Wedding Banquet (1993) and Wong Kar-Wai’s Happy Together (1997) are two examples of “New Queer Cinema”, a genre defined in the early 1990’s by academic and film critic B. Ruby Rich. New Queer Cinema defined and described an already existing movement of filmmakers that were examining gay identity and existence from a queer perspective tand rejected heterosexual norms and values (Rich 14). Initially focused on the sociocultural elements of specific films by auteurs like Haynes and Araki, the term was soon broadened to include any films with gay and lesbian content (Berry 214). Initially, these ...