Queer Representation Of The Film Bugs Bunny And The...

Popular culture or Pop culture in short has never been a multidimensional representation of gender or race but in away it has been able to provide a platform of introduction for that unknown representation that has not been introduced to the masses. Queer culture nowadays seems to be a standard representation in film and television. As a kid growing up, queer representation was almost unheard of in media or so I thought. As I look back at one of the most influential cartoon character, Looney Tune’s Bugs Bunny, I can’t help but help think about all of the sexual uncertainty that this character displayed over the years. With his constant sexual seduction of Elmer Fudd through cross dressing schemes and trickery. This acts lead me to believe that this character, like many others, created a platform for the creators to introduce sexual ambiguity in order to desensitize young viewers from heterocentrist ways. This approach to queer subtext has been has always been a part of Western media as we as we explored in the film â€Å"The Celluloid Closet† (1995). Queer representation for many years was an continuous uncategorized personification that was vaguely acknowledged but to those who understood the subtext, it became an undercurrent of complex coded information that eventually paved the way for the integration of queer identification within the hetero film storylines. Doty speaks about this and also mentions that at some point in time representation of queer culture and sexuality