Sign Up Now
Get instant access to over 1 million+ study documents
OR
Already registered? click here to login
By creating your account, you agree to our terms of service, privacy policy and student honor code.
¶ … Film Paris Is Burning
Culturally, there is some debate about whether drag is subversive. Certainly, there are elements of drag culture, as expressed by gay males, which can be considered subcultural, but drag has also been used by others to reinforce the stereotypes that drag purports to subvert. One recent popular film that featured drag performers was the movie Magic Mike II. When the male dancers, all of whom are described as heterosexual, go to the drag bar in the film, they compete in a drag performance simply by mimicking many of the mannerisms that have come to be associated with drag. Because drag has become part of popular heterosexual media in this way, should it still be considered subversive? Did your experience watching Paris is Burning alter your perspective on this question? If so, in what way?
One element of drag culture is the creation of characters as part of the expression of self. As depicted in the film, do you feel that this creation of character is truly an expression...
From watching the film, and learning that drag is separate and distinct from being transgender, do you feel like having a vibrant drag community is important for the health of the LGBT community as a whole, or do you feel as if drag is more of a subculture that is only tangentially related to broader LGBT issues? This is an issue that has been gaining more attention recently as drag groups and regional gay pride groups have had some clashes about appearances at gay pride events.
4. From watching Paris is Burning, do you think drag queens emulate or mock the feminine beauty ideal?
5. While the film focuses on gender and sexuality issues, there has been criticism that it ignores the racial implications that necessarily accompany any social documentary of any type. In fact, some critics have gone…
Paris is Burning chronicles the lives of African-American drag queens and gay men during the heyday of the New York City 'vogue-ing' fad. The filmmaker follows several men involved in the scene and shows the release mechanism the theatrical space of the club provide in their lives. The main protagonists are marginal figures in the mainstream world that often denies their existence or threatens them with violence. They are
Their methods, however -- regicide, then more murders to cover up the first one, and finally a desperate civil war in an attempt to kill the throne -- are not exactly worthy of nobility. All prophecies are eventually fulfilled; though Macbeth reigns as king, his line ends with him. Are Shakespeare's witches symbolic or real? Though tempting to interpret the witches as a sort of symbolic force, there can be little
Emile Zola and the Movies The translation of any work of literature into another medium, even one apparently so closely aligned with the written word as film, is always a chancy proposition. While literature and film focus themselves on the same targets within the minds of their audiences; that of completing an organic connection between the conception and the reception of an idea, the very natures of the two disciplines demand
Democratic Education Question No. What are the principles of democratic education? How are these principles and values in tension/contradiction with our social construction of children and youth? For example, what assumptions do we make about teaching, learning and youth that democratic schools challenge? How does "one size fits all" centralized curriculum contribute to what Apple called the "de-skilling of teachers"? What is lost when this approach is adapted, especially when it
Blade Runner: A Marriage of Noir and Sci-Fi Blade Runner is a 1982 film noir/science fiction film set in 2019 that depicts a world that is threatened by human advancements in technology. In the film, robotic humanoids become self-aware and decide that it is within their right to live past their predetermined expiration dates and set out to find a way to live among humans and defy scientists, whom arbitrarily decided
Graduate (Mike Nichols, 1967) centers on a coming-of-age story in a contemporary context used to satirize aspects of modern life and to highlight the conflict between generations that marked the late 1960s. The changes that come over the central character can be seen as a vision of the creation of a revolutionary, though a revolutionary without a clear cause to support and one who in the end has no