Not to mention Robert Mitchum in  "Pursued."
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From: Krzysztof Jozajtis <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tuesday, November 16, 1999 3:53 PM
Subject: Re: Male Sexuality


>At 9:42 am 16/11/99, paul wiener wrote:
>>I don't seew how you can say this. Female sexuality - long before West and
>>Marlene - has always been visible, exploited, enacted and expected in
>>films. It is MALE sexuality that almost never appeared before Brando.
>
>Slightly off the point: Whilst I accept that female sexuality has always
><been visible, exploited, enacted and expected in films> I'm not sure that
>male sexuality was never visible pre-Brando. What about (e.g.) Valentino,
>Gable, Wayne (even), and the wonderful Victor Mature? This is by no means
>my field, but it seems to me that what Brando did was complicate things by
>making visible (and top-box office) a more ambivalent, homo-erotic (even
>sado-masochistic) dimension to male desire. Has there been much work on
>male sexuality in the movies pre WWII?
>Yours aye
>Kris
>
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