Queer Theory In Movies

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Hidden in Plain Sight One’s beliefs and values on world views can greatly affect the way that we experience and perceive things and we will often remain loyal to these views. While one person might see a certain subject one way, another might see the matter in a contrasting light. Both of these people could be sound in their perceptions, while having differentiating views. Coincidently our ways of thinking also applies to the way that we critically view movies and other forms of media. There are many varying scopes in which we can criticize subjects and experience them in an entirely different way than last. One of these scopes we can utilize is queer theory. According to Kelly Mays, “The field of queer theory hopes to leave everyone guessing rather than to identify gay or lesbian writers, characters, or themes” (2349).
For example, there is a plethora of queer undertones all throughout the movie 300, if you seek them out. From the revealing amour, to the barely disguised homoerotic dialogue, spotting these details could hardly be considered pulling at strings when they are so blatant. This is furthered by Kelly Mays’s description of gender studies
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Even as Elsa makes an attempt to convince her younger sister that running off with Hans is not a wise choice, Anna ignores her sound advice. Ultimately, Anna discovers that Hans had evil intentions, and that from the start he planned to kill Elsa for the right to her throne. Surprisingly, Disney took an unexpected turn this time around and wrote the older sister Elsa as the one to thaw her sister’s heart with her “act of true love”, and not Kristoff, whom she had seemingly paired up with after departing from Hans. Near the movie’s climax Anna actually strikes Hans so forcefully that he falls off the boat they were on. This in turn signified her awakening and independent growth as a

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