Gay Best Friend: Reshaping Ideologies of Gay Masculinity in Film
Item
- Description
- L. P. Young Student Center, West Dining and Flag Room
- This study examines the 2013 film G.B.F (Gay Best Friend). This film is one of the few mainstream teen-comedies with two gay males as lead characters. Specifically, I use the method of close-textual ideological rhetorical criticism to analyze the verbal and visual messages in the film. I argue that the film both reasserts and reshapes norms of masculinity, heterosexuality, and homosexuality, such as how the 'ideal man' is straight and 'not feminine' (e.g. isn't flamboyant, likes sports). Rhetorical strategies in the film ultimately persuaded these beliefs. These strategies include naming, voice-over narration, informal style, identification, and labeling. This study has implications for the (dis)empowerment of gay men in contemporary American society, cultural constructions of masculinity, and research on film as an ideological medium.
- Jamie Landau
- Creator
- Pereira, Matthew J.
- Date
- 2016-04-09
- Identifier
- https://commons.keene.edu/s/KSCArchive/item/21095
- Language
- eng
- Subject
- Communication
- Type
- Presentation
- Provenance
- Keene State College
- Rights
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
- Item sets
- AEC 2016 School of Arts and Humanities
- Site pages
- School of Arts and Humanities
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