Some Thoughts on the Benefits and Limitations of Using Film in Bisexual Education

Abstract

This article considers the different kinds of challenges narrative film and documentary film present to educators.

KEYWORDS:

• bisexuality
• representation
• cinema
• narrative film
• documentary film
• education

Acknowledgments

The author would like to thank the American Institute of Bisexuality for its support in the preparation of this article.

Notes

1. To take a recent example from popular culture, actors Anna Paquin and Evan Rachel Wood have felt the need to publicly defend their bisexuality, largely because they are married (to men) and have children.

2. For a technical explanation of how the cinema works to convey this impression, see Roberts (2011, 2013).