Contents:
- GAY UNRCURRENT TRICKL THROUGH GREAT 'RED RIVER'
- CHAPTER 2 – QUEERS AND DYK THE DARK: CLASSIC, NOIR & HORROR CEMA’S COD GAY CHARACTERS:
GAY UNRCURRENT TRICKL THROUGH GREAT 'RED RIVER'
If the all-too-sane and tasteful Brokeback Mounta has whet your appete for a gay wboy movie, go out now and rent or buy Howard Hawks' magnificent Red uldn't rist toyg wh the emotns churng at the re of a homosocial world like that of ttle hands, and he sent the feelgs hurtlg to the surface one hilar tone Ireland plays gunman Cherry (! "Still, unlike Brokeback Mounta, whose claim to art and entertament rts on s gayns, the bety of a movie like Red River is that has somethg for everyone.
The gay ntent is like the Christian ntent The Chronicl of Narnia: The Ln, The Wch and the Wardrobe: proment a few scen, prent as an unrcurrent, but never allowed to swamp the exhilaratg mh of characters and epic sweep and be the Capta Queeg of ttle barons, shunng people who disagree wh him and shootg them for disloyalty. Closet, ” a documentary about hidn homosexualy the movi. Both the book The Celluloid Closet and the 1995 documentary ma om referenced Red River as one of the classic Hollywood pictur wh veiled homoerotic unrton.
Joseph McBri and Gerald Peary, an terview wh Howard Hawks for Film Comment, mented on the gay subtexts of several of the director's films, particularly this one.
CHAPTER 2 – QUEERS AND DYK THE DARK: CLASSIC, NOIR & HORROR CEMA’S COD GAY CHARACTERS:
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