Any deviation from “normality2 has been considered Taboo for years and kept off the screen. However more and more programmes are dealing with these “taboos”—pornography, homosexuality, double-personality, handicaps and transvestism. These programmes often raise disturbing questions on ethics and image making. TV can disturb—for good and for bad… Should public TV destroy those taboos, is this a legitimate and genuine challenge for change or is TV becoming a voyeuristic instrument? In this session we examine approaches to topics not often seen on television. They are portraits of transvestism, a documentary on fulfilling the dreams of the handicapped, and an historical documentary of homosexuality in the U.S.
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From the sexual experimentation of the roaring twenties to the scapegoating of homosexuals during the McCarthy era, to the development of the early homophile rights… -
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The subject of this film is Transvestism – or the compulsion that tens of thousands of men in this country share – to wear women’s clothes. Three men… -
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Two women happen to meet on a beach. One gives the other a lift to her home and thus introduces her family. It turns out to be a rather unusual family and the visitor…