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Rock Hudson's home movies [videorecording] /

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Material type: Film

FilmPublisher number: WBF 4035 | Waterbearer FilmsPublication details: [S.I.] : Couch Potato Prod. ; [Charlottesville, VA] : Distributed by Water Bearer Films, c2003.Description: 1 videodisc (63 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inSubject(s):

Genre/Form:

DDC classification:

791.4302/8/092/73 B 22

LOC classification:

PN2287.H75 R63 2003

Contents:

Start -- Rock is different -- Rock and women -- Rock, marriage and impotence -- Kissing interruptus -- Cruising -- Rock and older men -- Rock and Tony -- Rock and Doris -- Rock the sportsman -- Rock gets sick / Rock dies -- End credits.

Production credits:

Camera, Mark Daniels ; editor, Linda Goodheil ; costumes, Catherine Munro.

Starring Rock Hudson and Eric Farr.Summary: In this documentary, filmmaker Mark Rappaport conducts a revisionist analysis of the famed Hollywood actor's cinematic career. By turns fascinating, provocative, and amusing, nothing Hudson did onscreen escapes Rappaport's revisionist thesis--reading a gay subtext everywhere--which yields both clever insights and obvious stretching of a point. Rappaport's analysis is on its strongest ground in the examination of the Doris Day/Rock Hudson comedies of the late 50s and 60s, whose plots often centered on Hudson assuming dual identities. Hudson was gay, but Rappaport's obliviousness to anything beyond a narrow interpretative rubric hampers an otherwise excellent argument.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Video Recording	Carleton University, AVRC	SP456 - Collections Room	DVD 0482 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		16050093741

Originally produced as a documentary film in 1992.

Special features: Trailers (4 min.); 'Rock Hudson's Home Movies' t-shirts [slide show]; Blue Streak [short film] (16 min.).

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