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Who directed ‘The film is not yet rated’?

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Kirby Dick

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What is the significance of ‘the film is not yet rated?’

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  • Showed American rating system and effects on American culture
  • Censorship - MPAA
  • Board was harsher on homosexual material
  • women’s pleasure / non-traditional sex treated more harshly
  • Board raters did not receive training
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Who directed ‘The Divorceé’

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Robert Z. Leonard

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What is the significance of ‘The Divorceé

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  • Demonstrates how changing the laws on censorship, altered how films portrayed relationships and sex.
  • deals with taboo subjects of
    1. Adultery
    2. Sex
    3. Alcoholism
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Who directed ‘I am curious Yellow’?

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Vilgot Sjöman

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what is the significance of ‘I am curious yellow’?

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  • released during a time when publicity on censorship and classification was at an all time high
  • signalled a loosening of the production code
  • the sex is casual, works in desensitising sex
  • speaks of women’s pleasure / finding pleasure
  • docu style elements ; the political is personal and the personal is political, sex and politics, public and private intertwined
  • successfully straddled 3 categories of commercial cinema (general release, exploitation release and the art cinema)
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who directed ‘Sex world’?

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Anthony Spinelli

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what is the significance of sex world?

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  • movement to hard core, “principle of maximum visibility” (Williams)
  • deals with meat and money shot
  • imagined spectator is a white heterosexual man ; fetishises lesbianism, no mention of gay
  • exploits racial difference, a “colonial fantasy”
  • blaxploitation (Gill and Roger relationship)
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Who directed Humpday

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Lynn Shelton

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significance of Humpday?

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  • mumblecore, amateur, mocumentary style
  • speaks to the white heterosexual desire to radically break from heteronormative conventions
  • performing ‘gayness’ as a means to confirm straightness
  • the internalised homophobia acts as the antagonist in the film, something they have to work through, suggesting there is homoerotic culture in heteronormative male relations
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Who directed ‘Mommy is coming’ ?

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Cheryl Dunye

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what is significant about Mommy is coming?

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  • adheres to the authentic aesthetic of pornography, having each actor describe their sexual experience in a meta-interview.
  • acts as a narrative justification for sex
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who directed BPM?

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Robin Campillo

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what is the significance of BPM?

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  • shows computer-generated imagery
  • comments on hedonism (self-indulgence) EDIT
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who directed ‘United in Anger : a History of ACT UP’ ?

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Jim Hubbard

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significance of ACT UP?

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  • outlines strategies of aids activism - mode of social formation - ACT UP’s use of art and discursive practices
  • counter publics (Fraser) - subordinate publics that develop in proposition to the public sphere.
  • queer structure of feeling (Bordowitz) - presence formed in resistance to heterosexual normality
  • adheres to ‘affect’ - the ability to affect and be affected
  • narrates the relations amongst activist ; the strong bonds that can form through shared trauma
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who directed ‘Cover’?

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Bill Duke

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what is the significance of cover?

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  • adheres to ideas of the down-low
  • the shame imbued on black sexuality due to aids crisis
  • the dangers of black women because of down-low
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who directed ‘cruising’

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William Friedkin

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what is the significance of cruising ?

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  • establishes relationship between sex and death ; sex as dangerous - gay sex in particular?
  • presents homosexuality as a thing to suppress - the killer suppresses his own homosexuality through killing others
  • merges publics and private ; sex in public
  • cruising as a practice - gazing, walking
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who directed Shortbus?

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John Cameron Mitchell

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what is the significance of shortbus?

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  • embodies mantra of “different strokes for different folks”
  • pornotopia notion of sexual exploration ; solution to bad sex is more sex
  • explores fantasy of making sex public
  • blurs binary between public and private domains
  • presents voyeurism
  • presents technology in a negative light
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who directed Tangerine

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Sean Baker

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what is the significance of Tangerine?

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  • realism and authenticity are presented style of filming on the iPhone and some unscripted.
  • differs from Cambell’s archetypes of the sex worker, presenting trans, black women
  • the characters are the authors

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