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1. Scott Collette, personal email, 20 January 2006.[return to page 1 of essay]
2. Nikki Sullivan, A Critical Introduction to Queer Theory (New York: New York University Press, 2003) vi.
3. For key studies of such topics, see Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire (New York: Columbia University Press, 1985) and The Epistemology of the Closet (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990).
5. Two survey forms about Brokeback Mountain are attached below as Appendix 1 and Appendix 2. The first is a quantitative questionnaire that was used by a professional audience research company to track data about the film’s demographic appeal and how it might be most effectively marketed. The second survey is a qualitative questionnaire that I wrote and circulated on the campus of the University of North Texas. In designing my survey, I chose to construct open-ended questions that would hopefully elicit a wide range of actual viewer responses, rather than force answers into prescribed categories (as does the quantitative survey). As such, my survey does not pretend to be statistically significant or demographically balanced; its purpose was to elicit further comments about the film which were then analyzed along with other artifacts of reception (film reviews, op-ed pieces, etc.). My survey was distributed mostly around the Radio, TV, and Film Department at UNT and at the campus media center (which serves a wider population). I received about 45 completed surveys in all.
8. Leonard Pitts, “Why Brokeback Mountain is so Frightening,” Denton Record-Chronicle, 17 January 2006: 10A.
9. Overviews of homophobia can be found in Byrne Fone, Homophobia: A History (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2000) and David Plummer, One of the Boys: Masculinity, Homophobia, and Modern Manhood (New York: Harrington Park Press, 1999). See also Gregory M. Herek, “Beyond ‘Homophobia’: A Social Psychological Perspective on Attitudes Towards Lesbians and Gay Men,” in Bashers, Baiters, and Bigots: Homophobia in American Society, ed. John P. DeCecco(New York: Harrington Park Press, 1985). The study that proved that homophobia is positively correlated with same-sex feelings is reported in Henry E. Adams, Lester W. Wright, Jr., and Bethany A. Lohr, “Is Homophobia Associated with Homosexual Arousal?” Journal of Abnormal Psychology 105:3 (1996): 440-445.
11. Bryan Woolley, “Protecting Their View: Cowboy Poets Gather to Preserve a Culture — and Keep out Pretenders.” Dallas Morning News, 26 March 2006: 13-15. Image of poet Joel Nelson from http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/
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12. See, for example, the CDC report online at www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/ad/ad362.pdf.
13. Paige Mayhew, letter, Dallas Morning News, 1 January 2006: 2G.[return to page 2 of essay]
18. Mark Davis, “I’m a conservative, and I liked Brokeback Mountain,” Dallas Morning News, 1 February 2006: 17A.
26. The intense feelings generated by the film were instrumental in breaking up a friendship between two UNT colleagues of mine: a straight female English professor who defended the film and a gay psychologist who was bitterly disappointed with it.
31. Jacquielynn Floyd, “Brokeback Ignores Plight of Spouses, Dallas Morning News, 20 January 2006: 1-2B.
32. Sedgwick, Epistemology of the Closet. [return to page 3]
36. Mario Tarradell, “Willie Opens the Closet with ‘Cowboys’,” Dallas Morning News, 14 February 2006: 1, 4G.
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