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(PDF) The Significance of Brokeback Mountain
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(PDF) The Significance of Brokeback Mountain
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BROKE BACKMOUNTAIN0Brokeback MountainName of the Student:Name of the University:Author’s Note:
BROKE BACKMOUNTAIN1“There was some open space between what he knew and what he tried to believe, but nothingcould be done about it, and if you can't fix it you've got to stand it.”The above quoted lines from the movie “Brokeback Mountain” gives an overview of the entire movie and also about the ideological nature of the movie. This paper will deal with the ideological critique of the movie “Brokeback Mountain” and try to focus on the importantideological aspects of the movie which gets suppressed among the plethora of other ideas portrayed in the movie. The genre of ideological critique is a recent one and has gained a considerable amount of significance in the present times (Barounis 381-397). In the opinion of many scholars this particular kind of criticism is a rhetorical one and concerns itself with the critique of the rhetorical ideological elements within a particular text or movie which are either in conformity with or in opposition with the dominant ideology of the society or the general trend which is seen in the society (Barounis 381-397). The opinion of Sonja Foss about this framework of criticism is pertinent to note in this particular context when she says that “the primary goal of the ideological critic is to discover and make visible the dominant ideology or ideologies embedded in an artifact and the ideologies that are being muted in it” (Piontek 35.2: 123-134). The movie “Brokeback Mountain” when viewed through the lens of this particular framework would reveal significant new insights about the ideologies as well as the nature of the society of that particular time.
BROKE BACKMOUNTAIN2The movie “Brokeback Mountain” was released in the year 2005 as tries to show the secretive as well as the forbidden romantic relationship between two cowboys and the subsequent impact which this particular relationship had on their lives. The movie directed byAng Lee and produced by James Schamus in association with Diana Ossana is often considered not only to be one of the masterpieces of the director Ang Lee but also of the 2000s. It is a reflection of this particular fact that the movie under consideration here was the recipient of several prestigious awards like “Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, Best Picture and Best Director at the British Academy Film Awards, Golden Globe Awards, Producers Guild of America Awards, Critics' Choice Movie Awards, and Independent Spirit Awards” in addition with others (Lee). Furthermore, the movie also received eight “AcademyAwards” nominations and went on to win three Oscar awards, namely for “Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Original Score”. The movie featured some of the most prestigious actors of Hollywood like “Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Anne Hathaway, and Michelle Williams” in the lead role in addition to other minor characters. The central fulcrum of the movie revolves around the concept of homosexuality and the way the people who are homosexuals had to face not only the stigmatization of the society but also their violence for deviating from the general ideology or the pattern set by thesociety. The human society since the traditional times in a bid to maintain not only the genderstatus quo of the society but also to maintain the power balance of the society had tried to advocate the doctrine of heterosexuality. Therefore, since the traditional times the society has
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