美国学者维托·拉索在《胶片密柜》一书中谈到同性恋亚文本和隐秘文本的区别:前者影片本身不一定是同性恋题材,但影片中男性身体的展示和较量、仪式化的争斗、男性间暧昧的对视等都会引起同性恋者的特别关照;后者则把同性恋的主题意味置于不易察觉的深层。在经典好莱坞时期,同性恋的隐秘文本比亚文本要多得多,这些隐秘文本只能被那些敏锐感知同性恋编码信息的观众发现。分析北美同性恋影片的发展概况,由于早期电影很少 American scholar Vito Looso in the “film cabinet” a book talked about the difference between homosexuals and hidden texts: the former film itself is not necessarily a homosexual theme, but the male body in the film display and contest, the battle of ritual , Ambiguous masculinity between men and other will cause special attention to homosexuals; the latter will be the main theme of homosexuality is not easy to detect the depths. In the classic Hollywood period, much more covert texts were found in homosexuals than in Asian texts, which were found only by those who were keenly aware of homosexual code. An analysis of the profile of gay and lesbian films in North America, due to the paucity of early films