Cine, historia y homosexualidad: "Far from heaven" (Lejos de cielo, 2002) de Todd Haynes y "La mala educación" (2004) de Almodóvar
- Autores: Paul J. Smith
- Localización: Archivos de la filmoteca: revista de estudios históricos sobre la imagen, ISSN 0214-6606, Nº 54, 2006 (Ejemplar dedicado a: La mirada homosexual), págs. 98-109
- Idioma: español
- Títulos paralelos:
- Film, history and homosexuality: Far From Heaven (2002) and Bad Education (2004)
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Resumen
“Gay cinema” is a very complex category, somehow participating of ways of introducing meaning from an authorial perspective and a ways to read such meanings, sometimes even appropriating codes and narrative motifs. During the 1990s, the queer cinema auteurs were trying to introduce an offbeat homosexual perspective that could go beyond the limitations of “gay film”. But even if the label seems to have run its course, there continues to be a connection between homosexual perspective and certain cinematic expressions. Reviewers and commentators to this day consistently attempt to silence homosexual specificity. In this article, Paul Julian Smith focuses on a key aspect of the expression of two well-known homosexual filmmakers, Pedro Almodóvar and Todd Haynes, to illustrate the ways in which films on homosexuality may be a vehicle to make gay history visible. Prof. Smith concentrates on three kinds of homosexual history as featured in Far from Heaven and Bad Education: on the one hand, both films engage with issues of social history in the periods they represent (the USA in the 1950s and Spain in the 1980s respectively), secondly, there is discoursive history, that has to do with the silencing of homosexual visibility, and lastly there is the aesthetic history, exemplified in the relation between film itself and gay audiences.
