Film #12: But I'm A Cheerleader (1999)
Introduction The purpose of this essay is to identify the queer films with four approaches to conduct queer reading of the film, “But I’m a Cheerleader” by Jamie Babbit. Theory Discussion Queer Cinema has been in existence for decades but it was unnamed. It is identified with avant-garde cinema. In 1991, queer cinema was introduced at Toronto Film Festival as a concept that re-examined and reviewed the image of homosexuality. Queer cinema became more visible only in the 1990s with the global traumatizing effects of AIDS. The effects of AIDS has challenged many cultural assumptions about justice, identity, knowledge and desire such as homosexuality as a kind of fatality and the consistent judgement of HIV/AIDS as a gay disease. Queer cinema is reborn in the 1990s, which it is called “New Queer Cinema”. It is a term to describe the renaissance of gay and lesbian filmmaking by the Americans. New Queer Cinema is not a single aesthetic but a collection, taking pride in...