Rock_Hudson's_Home_Movies

<i>Rock Hudson's Home Movies</i>

Rock Hudson's Home Movies

American film


Rock Hudson's Home Movies is a 1992 documentary by Mark Rappaport.[1] It shows clips from Rock Hudson's films that could be interpreted as gay entendres.[2][3]

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Summary

Eric Farr speaks to the camera as if speaking Rock Hudson's words from a posthumous diary. Film clips from more than 30 Hudson films illustrate ways in which his sexual orientation played out on screen.[4][5][6] First there are tenuous and unresolved relationships with women, then clips of Rock with men, cruising and circling. Second, there is pedagogical eros: Hudson with older men. Rock is seen with his male sidekicks, often Tony Randall.[7][8][9]

Analysis

Next, the film looks in depth at comedies of sexual embarrassment and innuendo: films in which Hudson sometimes plays two characters, "macho Rock and homo Rock." Lastly, the film reflects on Hudson's death from AIDS.[10]

See also


References

  1. "Rock Hudson's Home Movies | TV Guide". TVGuide.com.
  2. "Rock Hudson's Home Movies (1992)" via www.rottentomatoes.com.
  3. "Rock Hudson's Home Movies | The Village Voice". www.villagevoice.com. 2 March 2011.
  4. Rock Hudson's Home Movies. August 25, 2018. OCLC 1035090192 via Open WorldCat.

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