FLM&MDA 85B Lecture 12: Lecture 12
20 Jan 2017
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Representative of the law trying to do the same job as hill street blues. Not a neat resolution at the end of the shows- continues. Sharp shifts in tone- more than hill street blues. Constantly have tv with one show, invitation to love. End of cold war/ crisis over american identity. Orthodoxy- transhisotical universal truth- what is good and what is bad. We can defined this by looking at sacred test. View of film/ tv mouthpiece of liberal hollywood. 30 something- gay men, don"t actually show sexual scenes. Never incidentally gay; sexuality as problem to be solved. Hip heterosexual- more tolerant to the gay character. Case of mistaken identity - straight person mistaken as gay. She is interviewed by time, and a lot of others. She announces she is gay - came out in a plane. Shows limits of integration of gay characters in prime time of 1990s. Subsidy for elite tastes (tax money for the elite people)
