directors Flashcards
Who directed ‘The film is not yet rated’?
Kirby Dick
What is the significance of ‘the film is not yet rated?’
- 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
Who directed ‘The Divorceé’
Robert Z. Leonard
What is the significance of ‘The Divorceé
- 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
Who directed ‘I am curious Yellow’?
Vilgot Sjöman
what is the significance of ‘I am curious yellow’?
- 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)
who directed ‘Sex world’?
Anthony Spinelli
what is the significance of sex world?
- 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)
Who directed Humpday
Lynn Shelton
significance of Humpday?
- 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
Who directed ‘Mommy is coming’ ?
Cheryl Dunye
what is significant about Mommy is coming?
- 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
who directed BPM?
Robin Campillo
what is the significance of BPM?
- shows computer-generated imagery
- comments on hedonism (self-indulgence) EDIT
who directed ‘United in Anger : a History of ACT UP’ ?
Jim Hubbard
significance of ACT UP?
- 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
who directed ‘Cover’?
Bill Duke
what is the significance of cover?
- 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
who directed ‘cruising’
William Friedkin
what is the significance of cruising ?
- 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
who directed Shortbus?
John Cameron Mitchell
what is the significance of shortbus?
- 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
who directed Tangerine
Sean Baker
what is the significance of Tangerine?
- 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
