Popular Cinema and Lesbian Interpretive Strategies

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ID3625899
AuthorsCheryl Dobinson (0000-0002-2701-5451, York University), Kevin Young (0000-0002-6369-5108, University of Calgary)
Year2000
Volume40
Issue2
Pages97-122
Publication date2000-12-23
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Homosexuality (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0091-8369 • E-ISSN: 1540-3602
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1300/j082v40n02_07
PMID11206424
OpenAlexW1990245680
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited19

In its examination of the relationship between popular film and lesbian viewing practices, this study attempts to more fully elucidate current ideas around audience engagement and forms of cultural reception. Drawing on 15 in-depth interviews conducted in Western Canada in 1996, the results clearly demonstrate the existence of active lesbian viewers, whose interpretations of popular film are intimately informed by lesbian-specific life experiences and cultural competencies. Although the social conditions which create the need for resistant viewing are themselves oppressive, subversion of mainstream film holds out some possibility of empowerment for lesbian viewers

Aesthetics · Art · Homosexuality · Lesbian · Literature · Movie theater · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Asian Culture and Media Studies · Cinema and Media Studies · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Psychology · Social Psychology

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