<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Riffing off Jim's last line, does anime count as cinema?<div><br></div><div>If so, there are any number of titles loosely categorized either as boys love, or yuri (lily). Have your student ask someone in the local manga anime club. Alternatively, we could begin to assemble a list here, but it could get rather long rather quickly.</div><div><br></div><div>Bruce</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div>On Apr 14, 2010, at 6:24 PM, Jim Harper wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><div>These don't count as major themes, but there are homosexual/transexual/transvestite elements in Wild Zero (transvestite, played mainly for comedy), Wizard of Darkness (female teacher having affair with female pupil) and Misa the Dark Angel (relationships between female schoolgirls). As I said, these don't really qualify as major themes, but they are present, and they go beyond the fairly chaste same-sex crushes depicted frequently in anime and other media.</div> <div> </div> <div>Jim.<br><br>--- On <b>Wed, 14/4/10, Dick Stegewerns <i><<a href="mailto:dick.stegewerns@xs4all.nl">dick.stegewerns@xs4all.nl</a>></i></b> wrote:<br></div> <blockquote style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid"> <div class="plainMail">Dear colleagues,<br><br>I have a graduate student who wants to write on Japanese films dealing with homo- or trans-sexuality but who is not terribly successful in finding films and sources. I am afraid my mind is blank and I cannot think of more than a handful of films (not pink or porn) in which homosexuality is a major theme and cannot recollect having read one book or article on the subject.<br><br>Film titles and reading suggestions (both English and Japanese) most welcome.<br><br>Regards,<br><br>Dick Stegewerns<br>Oslo University<br></div></blockquote></td></tr></tbody></table><br> </blockquote></div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; ">Bruce Baird</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; ">Assistant Professor</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; ">Asian Languages and Literatures</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; ">University of Massachusetts Amherst</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; ">But</span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; ">ô</span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; ">, Japanese Theater, Intellectual History</span></font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; ; font-family: Helvetica; "><br style="; font-family: Helvetica; "></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; ">7</span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; ">17 Herter Hall</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; ">161 Presidents Drive</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; ">University of Massachusetts Amherst</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; ">Amherst, MA 01003-9312</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; ">Phone: 413-577-4992</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px">Fax: 413-545-4975<font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; "><a href="mailto:baird@asianlan.umass.edu">baird@asianlan.umass.edu</a></span></font></p><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span> </div><br></body></html>