From Story to Film
Brokeback Mountain ’s “In-Between” Spaces
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8895715 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Neil Campbell (0000-0003-2313-6608, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 205-220 |
| Publication date | 2009-06-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Review of American Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-7720 • E-ISSN: 1710-114X |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3138/cras.39.2.205 |
| OpenAlex | W2164116435 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 1 |
This essay examines the different ways in which Annie Proulx, in her story “Brokeback Mountain,” scriptwriters Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana, and Ang Lee in his film address the central tensions between desire and social conditioning through a re-exploration of the western genre. Using the concept of ”in-between space,” the article shows how the ”text” (i.e., story/film) is the product of many hands each bringing certain knowledge and approaches to the material and extending outward into new, challenging areas of work. From this mixing of authors there emerges a powerful, tragic story that reveals much about the social conformity of the West embedded in masculinity, patriarchy, and domesticity. This social pressure is examined through the contrasting ”textual” use of space, panopticism, and a constraining sense of family set against the powers of nature, love, and memory
Aesthetics · Art · Conformity · Linguistics · Literature · Masculinity · Patriarchy · Product (mathematics · Set (abstract data type · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · American and British Literature Analysis · Computer Science · Gender Studies · History · Literature, Film, and Journalism Analysis · Philosophy · Poetry Analysis and Criticism · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
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