There are a growg number of mastream films and televisn shows which clu gay characters or same-sex fai as central figur: A Sgle Man, The Kids Are Alright, Will & Grace, Mad Men, Two and a Half Men, and Morn Fay. This this sets out to terme if the film Interview wh the Vampire, which preced the above named films and televisn shows by more than five years, is a ce of queer cema that foc on gay them while proposg a same-sex fay. In uplg Seymour Chatman's rhetoril theory of narrative fictn - lerature and film wh Harry Benshoff and Sean Griff's theory of Queer Cema, the study foc on lotg and cg specific stanc where gay them of inty and intifitn along wh the theme of the same-sex fay emerge. The study utiliz the novel Interview wh the Vampire by Ann Rice as a cril touchstone and draws om Roland Barth' ncept of "Rhetoric of the Image" to evaluate the strength of the them found wh the adapted film Interview wh the Vampire. The rearch fds several exampl of the re-prentatn of dividual gay liv and unvers evince of a cematic reprentatn of a same-sex fay. The rearcher nclus that while the film Interview wh the Vampire is certaly an example of queer cema, also prents a same-sex fay un that may be the first of s kd.
Contents:
- ANNE RICE AND HER HOMOEROTIC VAMPIR LEFT AN IMMORTAL MARK ON GAY CULTURE
- 'INTERVIEW WH THE VAMPIRE' IS A BRILLIANT GAY FEVER DREAM
ANNE RICE AND HER HOMOEROTIC VAMPIR LEFT AN IMMORTAL MARK ON GAY CULTURE
The inic Amerin thor of gothic fictn, cludg "Interview Wh the Vampire," was a vol support of gay rights. * interview with the vampire gay themes *
When Interview wh the Vampire was released cemas 1994, dienc for the most part pletely missed the glarg homoeroticism and queer subtext. As if that wasn’t queer enough, Interview wh the Vampire also has plenty of scen of very homoerotic bloodsuckg. It’s worth notg that Anne Rice herself knew jt how subversive the text’s implic queerns was – and she worried s homoerotic leangs would stop Interview wh the Vampire om ever makg to the big screen.
'INTERVIEW WH THE VAMPIRE' IS A BRILLIANT GAY FEVER DREAM
When she sat down to wre the screenplay, Rice famoly nsired rewrg Louis as a woman, fearg that Hollywood’s graed homophobia would stop the film om beg ma. In the end, Pt was st as Louis and the film went ahead wh much of s homoeroticism tact – even if had to be cloaked subtext to keep straight dienc engaged.
Dpe s homoerotic them, Interview wh the Vampire was an stant h – even if crics were polarised. Speakg to The Daily Beast 2016, she said she was “honoured” when people told her that Interview wh the Vampire reads as a gay allegory.
“I thk I have a gay sensibily and I feel like I’m gay, bee I’ve always transcend genr, and I’ve always seen love as transcendg genr, ” she said. “In my books, I’ve always created bonds of love that have transcend genr… I’ve always been very much a champn of gay rights, and art produced by gay people – whether was the early Frankenste movi that had such a gay sensibily to them, or any art created by gay people.