Some more about Celluloid Closet
Dec. 3rd, 2000 12:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
silversolitaireThat's something I wanted to add yesterday. About gender studies and gay movies. It's something I realized already some time ago. It may be silly, but I'd really love to have a huge library full of gay books. And I'd love to make it open for the public. I'd want to collect all books there are on this subject, be it openly GLBT context or just a subtext or featuring gay characters. I'd sort them by topic and make them open for everyone who wants to read about it. I'd really, really want to do that. And of course I'd add a video corner too, with all the films there are... Oh yes... that must be my biggest dream now. I want it so much, it makes my heart ache. I want to get into gender studies with full force. I want it so much...
I wish I could work together with my favorite professor. I admire her tremendously. She's so smart and she sees all the things I see. But who am I... I'm nobody. Gods... I want this library so much. But how much money do you need to start one? Hundreds of thousands of dollars, I'm sure. You'd have to track down all kind of sources. Some films are only available in the States, some in England. You'd have to be prepared to play both PAL and NTSC, and if you go for DVDs then you must be able to provide code-free players. Many films aren't available on video or DVD at all, I'm afraid. You'd have to have people who tape it for you once they're on TV.
Oh my... this won't let me sleep. I already said this to my Mom. I said, "So, should you win those 10 millions in the lottery, make sure to give me one, so I can start my gender studies library!" and both my parents went "????". *g*
But I am happy. At last I have a dream again. ^_^
I got a bit sad, too. Because I really enjoyed "Celluloid Closet" a lot. I was sad that it ended 1989. I wanted to write Vito Russo, tell him how much I loved his book, how important it was to me and that I'd really want him to update his info. But I can't... because he's dead. He died already 1990. At the age of 44... This makes me sad. I always care for people who are dead already and I wish I could talk to them, but I can't... *sighs*
I wish I could work together with my favorite professor. I admire her tremendously. She's so smart and she sees all the things I see. But who am I... I'm nobody. Gods... I want this library so much. But how much money do you need to start one? Hundreds of thousands of dollars, I'm sure. You'd have to track down all kind of sources. Some films are only available in the States, some in England. You'd have to be prepared to play both PAL and NTSC, and if you go for DVDs then you must be able to provide code-free players. Many films aren't available on video or DVD at all, I'm afraid. You'd have to have people who tape it for you once they're on TV.
Oh my... this won't let me sleep. I already said this to my Mom. I said, "So, should you win those 10 millions in the lottery, make sure to give me one, so I can start my gender studies library!" and both my parents went "????". *g*
But I am happy. At last I have a dream again. ^_^
I got a bit sad, too. Because I really enjoyed "Celluloid Closet" a lot. I was sad that it ended 1989. I wanted to write Vito Russo, tell him how much I loved his book, how important it was to me and that I'd really want him to update his info. But I can't... because he's dead. He died already 1990. At the age of 44... This makes me sad. I always care for people who are dead already and I wish I could talk to them, but I can't... *sighs*
