A Study on Drag Costume Expressed in the Cinema

  • Kang, Rim-A (Textiles Dept. of Human Ecology, Chonbuk National University) ;
  • Lee, Hyo-Jin (Dept. of Clothing & Textiles, Chonbuk National University)
  • Published : 2003.10.01

Abstract

After the end of the twentieth century, sexual boundary the man and the woman get collapsed, and the tendency of sexual discordance gets deepened in the costume influenced by cultural pluralism and eclecticism, and subculture which illuminates behavioral styles and values again. In this situations, some people want to be a woman with transsexual change operation, and on the contrary, some people reject to put on woman's dress and express themselves' images putting on the cloths like a man, a few of people who challenge the role of sexual dichotomy express their open identity persue their desires with self-confidence, exchange their informations through internet, interchange each other with open demonstration, and discuss and share their opinions about their social positions. In addition to it, some homosexuals, bisexuals, transsexuals and cloth perverts are used as the materials of cinema which pursue new world. They are utilized in the communicative program which recognize and observe the sexual variety as they are, and make a sexual values.

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