Queer Cinema of Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss
Film genres define as formulated structures to making films in terms of its semantics and syntactic approaches (Altman, 1984). Due to the generalised style of making films, it created a standard idea that films are to have the same target audience who are straight males known as the phenomenon “the male gaze”. However, the emergence of films that went against these standardised ideologies became more prominent including Queer Cinema which is recognised for practising an avant-garde style of making films (Sullivan, 2003). It also made its debut at the Toronto Film Festival as a film genre that attempts to re-examine the pre-existing normative ideologies of gender, sexual identity and orientation by questioning the majority society’s belief (Sullivan, 2003). A film such as Billy’s Hollywood Screen Kiss challenges the concept of male gaze. The film aims to question the heterogeneous style of making films by portraying homosexuality in a variety of ways and not just based on the stere
