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

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.[https://www.newyorker.com/goings-on-about-town/movies/rock-hudsons-home-movies The New Yorker][https://wexarts.org/film-video/rock-hudson-s-home-movies Wexner Center for the Arts][https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/rock-hudsons-home-movies/Film?oid=1048417 Chicago Reader] 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.

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.

See also



*'The Celluloid Closet'

*Douglas Sirk

*Essay film

References




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