In typil Hchck-ian fashn, the "Master of Spense" often employed his films subtle referenc to gay culture, fyg nservative attus of the late '50s.
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GAY CODG HCHCK FILMS
This post is part of the Queer Film Blogathon currently beg hosted by Carole at Garbo Lghs to celebrate gay pri month. The aim of the blogathon is to exame films that feature “lbian, gay, bisexual, trans, or otherwise non-heterosexual, non-genr-bary pictns or personag film. Berenstien not that the horror genre is “a primary arena for sexuali and practic that fall outsi the purview of patriarchal culture, and the subgeneric trop of the unseen, the ghost and the hnted hoe…Portrayg lbians as ghosts Hollywood movi is, then, directly lked to cultural attus and anxieti about homosexualy.
REBEC : WAS MRS DANVERS GAY?
As Lily Toml explas the 1995 documentary The Celluloid Closet, gay characters have been on the screen sce the birth of cema. Mastream dienc 1940 may or may not have read the film versn of Rebec as havg anythg to do wh homosexualy, but is likely that gay and lbian dience members of the time viewed films hop of tchg glimps of LGBT people reprented on screen. 9_9 Jaime: Homosexualy isn't at all a 2013 image!
I am aware that homosexualy has existed forever. I mean, was wrten way before gay rights bee a big thg like is today.
" Rebec was published 1938, over a after Europe had gone through a very pro-homosexual perd, wh lots of barets and open homosexual behavr among many artists and tellectuals.