Abstract
Disney’s animated phenomenon Frozen (2013) has been criticized by America’s religious right for its homosexual subtext which allegedly advocates non-Christian values to impressionable audiences. This essay does not dispute the presence of such a subtext, but argues that that the film’s gay codings, rather than celebrating and encouraging homosexuality, invoke bigoted stereotypes, negative psychoanalytic categories and masochistic cinematic conventions. The film represents homosexuality in an ostensibly non-discriminatory manner, but undermines this potential through a range of cultural prejudices and conventionalized conservative cinematic techniques. The last of these elements entails the film’s most sinister approach to homosexuality, reflexively linking a masochistic representation of its gay-coded characters with the ideological passivity of cinematic spectatorship.Citation
Geal, R. (2016). Frozen, Homosexuality and Masochism. Film International, 14 (2), pp 99-111.Publisher
Intellect ConnectJournal
Film InternationalAdditional Links
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/10.1386/fiin.14.2.99_1Type
Journal articleLanguage
enDescription
This is an accepted manuscript of an article published by Intellect in Film International on 01/06/2016, available online: https://doi.org/10.1386/fiin.14.2.99_1 The accepted version of the publication may differ from the final published version.ISSN
1651-6826ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1386/fiin.14.2.99_1
Scopus Count
Collections
The following licence applies to the copyright and re-use of this item:
- Creative Commons
Except where otherwise noted, this item's license is described as https://creativecommons.org/CC BY-NC-ND 4.0