"they" Imaging World

With the transforming of the social and political and economical and cultural formation as the background, and the sociology and economics as the theoretical basis, this thesis tries to expound the Chinese movies which reveal the lives of the male homosexuality from 1992 to 2005. The focal points are about the status confirmation, the narrative characteristic as well as the realistic situation in these movies.Status confirmation contains the sex status, the social status and the cultural status. In the sex status aspect, the homosexual's natural orientation need a gradual discovery process which is always blocked. In the social status aspect, the homosexuality community continuously is at a kind of edge condition. In the cultural status aspect, the homosexuality culture containing rebels against social habit, is a kind of unique comparison of the mainstream culture. The homosexuality theme movies also have distinctive qualities in the narrative aspect. Moreover,these movies produced in China, are also influenced by the theoretical, social as well as the artistic condition.The homosexuality theme has always been some kind of forbidden area, in the world or in china. Although in mainland China as well as in the Hong Kong and Taiwan area,movie industries have some certain difference, but from the beginning of 1990s, the movies regardless of in the culture or in the economy, gradually present the coexistence. The Chinese homosexuality theme movies also together constitute a kind of different Chinese movie landscape.