re. the prison rape thread: Today's Globe and Mail review says _American History X_ includes a heavily aestheticized rape scene that plays like gay pornography. The same thing might be said of the rape scene in Jean-Claude Lauzon's debut feature, _Un Zoo, la nuit_ (1987), where the whole scene is shot through with beautiful blue light and body-sculpting shadows. This is just one instance where Un Zoo bathes itself in a kind of homoerotic homophobia, using male-male sexual violence as a source of visual pleasure and a launching pad for a long string of retaliatory moves against the film's only gay character. Lee Parpart York University, Toronto, Ontario ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama.