The Coming Out Process of Queer Male Teenagers in Contemporary European Cinema

This thesis discusses the similarities in coming-out depictions in contemporary European cinema focusing on teenage and coming-of-age queer male characters. While based on understanding the coming out as a sociological phenomenon with strereotypical development, it allows for deviations both in reality and in film. The thesis further aims to identify common elements in films with coming-out narratives: repetitive narrative techniques, themes, characters and motives. Using the analyses of three films, the thesis also examines the importance of coming-out stories in broader film narrative