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Article: "You know I ain't queer": Brokeback Mountain as the not-gay cowboy movie.(Critical essay)
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- Intertexts
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- September 22, 2006
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"Yes, it's the gay cowboy movie. Get over it," wrote Ty Burr in his Boston Globe review of Brokeback Mountain (par. 1). Intending to rebuke any viewer who would resist the movie because of its "gay" content, Burr ends up constructing a response that has the effect of simultaneously defining and denying such content. At the same time that the statement declaratively assigns the film a very particular same-sex identity--"gay cowboy movie"--it denies the significance of that identity through an imperative erasure ("get over it"). Structurally, Burr's comment replicates the cultural effect of the film as a whole: at the very point that Brokeback Mountain was being praised by many ...
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Article: Maverick role; Ledger not tossed by gay cowboy part ...
The Boston Herald;
December 13, 2005 ;
700+ words
... ... smiled when asked about his brave decision to star as a cowboy in love with Jake Gyllenhaal's rodeo rider in "Brokeback Mountain," opening Friday. "I think being brave is what the firefighters are when they put out a fire," Ledger said ...
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