The Silver Screen
Color Me Lavender
Waterbearer Films
Web: http://www.waterbearerfilms.com
The Silver Screen: Color
Me Lavender is a film by Mark Rappaport starring Dan Butler of
Frasier fame as our guide. It offers a comprehensive overview of the
undercurrents of gay sexuality as found throughout the history of Hollywood
cinema. From the more explicit and obvious stereotypes of the sissy and queen
through the subtleties of male-male relationships as depicted within the
Western this is a perceptive and insightful journey. Rich analysis is offered
of the comedy of such actors as Bob Hope, Danny Kaye, Jerry Lewis, Gary Grant
and many others as we come to understand the undercurrents which express the
unconscious sexuality of the culture at large.
Unlike
films such as The Celluloid Closet,
this offers a far more psychological form of film criticism accompanied with an
excellent narration, witty insights and lots of superb clips and images. Many
of these clips have not been seen before and offer a priceless history of
homosexual themes in cinema.
As
films are decoded, dissected and analysed you realize just how visible we
really were in the history in cinema, it is just that most viewers did not know
what to look for !
Extras
include the never before seen short video “John Garfield” ,
Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell T-Shirt Gallery and Trailers.
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