Dance Lonely In The Mirror After Midnight

This paper will give discussion on the male homosexuality in western movie from the dimensions of subculture study. The demonstration of homosexuality in western movie has a history of nearly a hundred years. As heresy of main stream featuring with traditional heterosexuality and mainstream sex ideology, the homosexuality was always marginalized in western movies. As the social culture multiplied, the tendency that homosexuality is non- crime, non- morals, and non-pathology is very obvious day by day in the world. however, people show more and more tolerance to homosexuality. Lots of movies involving homosexuality repeatedly won prizes in all kinds of movie festivals with their particular artistic features and esthetics, the study on homosexuality movies have now becoming more and more popular in scholar world. Therefore, focusing on the male homosexuality in movies, from the unique perspective of movie history, subculture content, artistic feature and living space, this thesis tempts to interpret the kaleidoscope images in movie world and its significance about cultural ecology.This thesis is divided into five parts:In the first section, Introduction. Sort out the review situation of homosexuality in western movies both at home and abroad, this chapter generalizes this thesis' study angle and features, and explains its academic values and significances.In section two, concisely discuss separate trends showed by western movie towards homosexuality: on the one hand, the heterosexuality movies occupying the leading position encode homosexuality viciously, and ridicule, distort and even demonize it; on the other hand, some underground or pioneer movies defend for homosexuality, rebelling against the oppression of traditional idea of value specific to heterosexuality. In the social tension between mainstream culture and subculture, we can outline the resistance, condition, way and characteristic that the male homosexuality in the history of western movie, and promulgate the cultural field of the code and the counter-code of the sexual ideology.In segment three, address the sub cultural meaning and artistic features of homosexuality movie. Homosexuality movies often contain the style of aestheticism, and seek for the perfection of form and frame. This aesthetic originates from homosexual's strong narcissism. Because of the similar aesthetic pursuit and the bitter realistic experience of homosexual, homosexuality movies also fill with melancholy mood frequently, possessing the beauty of"blue".In section four, describe the margin of homosexual living space in western movies. Under the dual pressure of the cultural hegemony of traditional heterosexuality and the mainstream sex ideology, homosexuality often appears as the attached component in the movie of Hollywood's kind, such as western movie and highway movie, and so on. Homosexuality movie are often propagandized by manufacturer as movies possessing universal significance. And in some cases, we have to employ the queer sight in order to explore the homosexual motif hid deeply in homosexuality movies.Segment five is the concluding remarks. In this segment, conclude the expression course of homosexuality in western movie, sum up the significance and value of the homosexuality movie, and make a forecast of its prospect. The author thinks that the research of male homosexuality has important theoretical value and the practical significance to contemporary western literary theory. The theme of male homosexuality in the western movie enlightens us to pay attention to the subculture's survival circumstances and the marginal community's emotional world, and to advocate a equal, free, multiple spirit of times, and facilitate a harmonious, tolerant, kaleidoscope construction of cultural ecology.