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.
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 MRS DANVERS GAY?
" 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. I fd that anyone thought this qutns should not be asked: Historilly, there is a "gay" ntext to both Du Mrier and Rebec; even if the psychologil or culturally nt aspects(there had been a recent backlash agast "queer culutre" both Europe and the U.
A relatnship, whether homosexual or heterosexual, impli some sort of partnership, and I thk that Mrs Danvers is far too subservient and domated by Rebec, for to be nsired a romantic relatnship (by her or by anyone else). I would say to those who thk the ia of homosexualy this novel is ridiculo due to s time, that there are fely hts as to a bisexual nature Rebec's character and there were even mours that Daphne DuMrier herself was bisexual. Danvers had a homosexual fascatn wh Rebec ( was durg her rant about how Rebec ed men, would never fall love wh a man, etc.
Danvers and/or Rebec turned out to be bisexual or homosexual, would not be the greatt shock to me. Gay people n still fall love and bee obssed wh others, whout the sexual act happeng, jt as straight people n.