Not to mention Robert Mitchum in "Pursued." -----Original Message----- 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 > >---- >Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the >University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu > ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.tcf.ua.edu/ScreenSite