Starts 15 mut! 6:15 am Eastern.I jt stumbled across this movie as I was searchg the channel gui, and seems to be a gay-themed movie:[quote] At the turn of the century, poser ...
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JT HOW GAY IS "DEATH VENICE"?
A homoerotic "master text" or a cryptic parable of art, arrogance and self-ceptn?
This is a book about Italy wrten by a German, a book about homosexual love wrten by a married man who fathered six children, a book about a man who bas himself and embrac his own ath wrten by a man who lived to age 80 as the very embodiment of bourgeois lerary rpectabily. There n be no qutn, however, that "Death Venice" is a book about homosexual passn -- the ey of some gay lerary scholars and queer-studi theorists, has virtually bee the book about homosexual passn -- and that fact has affected s receptn all along. Gay rears were unrstandably enraged by scholarly efforts to atheticize the queerns out of "Death Venice, " and the post-Stonewall amic revolutn has produced a valuable rrective.
The fact that "Death Venice" is based to some gree on an event om Mann's life, and even the fact that Mann himself may have been homosexual or bisexual, do not mean that the book is only about those thgs, or that amounts to no more than an anguished Frdian nfsn thly ated wh imagatn. At the risk of soundg like a middlebrow hetero liberal, let me sist that would be unfortunate if future generatns read "Death Venice" as a "paradigmatic master-text of homosexual eroticism, " the phrase of cric and novelist Gilbert Adair.