The History of the Hays Code & its Impact on Lesbian Representation in 20th Century Cinema 🎬
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
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We all owe Donna Deitch a huge debt of gratitude for giving us Desert Hearts, and breaking the cycle of male filmmakers versions of what & who lesbians are. Thank you “Sapphic Underground” for this well presented piece on film history!! 🎥🎞️🎬🌈❤️
Such a brilliant film. It was definitely included in the movies I watched during my gay awakening. Along with stuff like A World Unseen, Can't think Straight, Debs and But I'm a Cheerleader.
@@Void-Realm I’m there for all of those films!! 🙌🌈❤️
Hmm you are making me remember my teenage years and searching blindly for any snippets of lesbian love in the movies available on UK TV at the time, 1980's. My vivid imagination was strong though and no end of glamorous leading ladies to thirst after (even though I didn't quite know why at the time). Black Narcissus was a favourite with the nuns in a beautiful setting brimming over with suppressed longing, all in glorious technicolour. Then all of a sudden, 'Oranges are not the only fruit' and 'Portrait of a marriage' came along as BBC TV dramas and blew my young mind, in a good way, perhaps it was some sort of way to restore the balance of Section 28 and all of its tentacles.
Thank you so much for talking about olivia❤
Having my sexuality referred to as a sociopathic personality disturbance makes me feel a bit intimidating, not going to lie. 😅
this was fascinating, thank you for doing/presenting this extensive research!!
This was really informative. I’m going to go back and watch Rebecca. I watched that numerous times as a kid. I had no idea there was lesbian subtext in there. ty for pulling this video together. ❤
💜🎬 Great video! I was wrong thinking that during the Hays Code era there wasn't any lesbian content on movies... Now IDK how i feel with fact that there where some..., but now I know for sure that lesbian vampire's stories are as old as the sandals Sappho used to wear 😌
Thanks for keep enlightening our lesbian brains!!
This reminds me of an HBO 2 part special back in the late 90s/early 2000s. It covered the way lgbtq filmmakers/actors had to work around this and during the Mccarthy hearings.
Thank you for highlighting the true history of sapphic Hollywood.
I've never heard of this- interesting! Love your wall art also :)
In the book Rebecca, when Maxim is describing how evil Rebecca was, he he says something like, "...my God she wasn't even normal..." Daphne DuMaurier was herself a lesbian, or at least bi.
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great video
Can you plzzzzzz make a review for the book Hearing Red by nicole maser plzzzzz
I thought your explanation of the Hays Code and its causes was well done. We also have the Hays code to thank for the “exploitation” genre. You mentioned 70s sexploitation movies, but small studios found a niche making exploitation films almost from the moment the big studios started enforcing the code. (See the 1936 movie Marihuana for drug use and a little nudity, for example.) Of course these pictures were officially morality tales, where dissolute characters met deservedly unhappy endings, but that’s not why audiences went to see them. I’m not aware of any early examples of exploitation films featuring homosexuality in general or lesbianism in particular, though.
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No doubt this is a great video but going to watch the boys season 4 for queen Maeve. Our badass gay anti hero. But mostly because my cinema degree is well aware of the Hays Code and how writers then became very clever with innuendos and subtext.
Unfortunately no Queen Maeve this season. I reckon we'll see her for the final season whenever that gets filmed.
@@Void-Realm 😳damn it. Thanks.
I just realised I hate the word 'lesbianism' ..as if it's some sort of past-time activity and not the state of being. tf 😆