Mark Rappaport
Rock Hudson's Home Movies
Format VOD
Original format HD
Year 1971-2016
Language(s) English
Artist(s) Mark Rappaport
Subtitles French
Running time 124 min
Films
ROCK HUDSON'S HOME MOVIES (1992) 63'
SERGEI / SIR GAY (2016) 36'
JOHN GARFIELD (2003) 9'
BLUE STREAK (1971) 16'
Description
Rock Hudson's Home Movies is a collage film whose real star is the "chosen excerpt." It's a revision of film history that reexamines Rock Hudson's films in light of what everyone now knows about him—essentially that he was gay and died of AIDS. Rock Hudson is a unique paradox—the paradigm of onscreen masculinity who happens to be homosexual. The fictional construction that was Rock Hudson becomes a text to be read or reread in many ways—but all roads lead to Rome. Rock Hudson was as much a prisoner as he was a purveyor of sexual strategy and stereotypes. He is a prism through which one can explore assumptions about sexuality, gender coding, sexual role-playing in Hollywood films and, by extension, in 1950s and 1960s America.