Japanese queer/gay cinema

[Bruce Baird]

Riffing off Jim's last line, does anime count as cinema?

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.

Bruce


On Apr 14, 2010, at 6:24 PM, Jim Harper wrote:

> 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.
>
> Jim.
>
> --- On Wed, 14/4/10, Dick Stegewerns <dick.stegewerns at xs4all.nl>  
> wrote:
> Dear colleagues,
>
> 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.
>
> Film titles and reading suggestions (both English and Japanese)  
> most welcome.
>
> Regards,
>
> Dick Stegewerns
> Oslo University
>

Bruce Baird
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Asian Languages and Literatures
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Butô, Japanese Theater, Intellectual History

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