Rock Hudson's Home Movies

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]

Rock Hudson's Home Movies
Directed byMark Rappaport
Written byMark Rappaport
Produced byColeen Fitzgibbon
Mark Rappaport
CinematographyMark Daniels
Edited byMark Rappaport
Running time
63 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Summary

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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

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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

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References

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  1. ^ "Rock Hudson's Home Movies | TV Guide". TVGuide.com.
  2. ^ "Rock Hudson's Home Movies (1992)" – via www.rottentomatoes.com.
  3. ^ "Trailer on REVOIRVIDEO YouTube channel". YouTube. 5 November 2018. Archived from the original on 2021-12-21.
  4. ^ The New Yorker
  5. ^ Wexner Center for the Arts
  6. ^ Chicago Reader
  7. ^ "Rock Hudson's Home Movies | The Village Voice". www.villagevoice.com. 2 March 2011.
  8. ^ Rock Hudson's Home Movies. August 25, 2018. OCLC 1035090192 – via Open WorldCat.
  9. ^ "Rock Hudson's Home Movies". Time Out London. 10 September 2012.
  10. ^ Labuza, Peter (June 16, 2014). "'Rock Hudson's Home Movies' Hits Criterion: Seeking the Hidden In the Evident".
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