Sentences with word «homoeroticism»

In a recent article in The Guardian of London, Rosemary Hill wrote of this scene, «Whether it is the latent homoeroticism of the vision or simply the sudden change of tone that makes the scene so uncomfortable, it is certainly a failure.»

While this speaks to the latent homoeroticism in many buddy - cop films, it also makes Danny the vibrant heart whose sheer enthusiasm eventually melts the icy professional Nicholas, and that's an irresistible transformation as played by Pegg.

Now, when people talk about «latent homoeroticism» in the Iliad, or in the biblical story of David and Jonathan, even if I might read those passages differently, I at least know what they're talking about, but Rosemary Hill leaves me speechless.

blood fest, homoeroticism war fest.

A movie composed almost entirely of dick jokes, ass jokes and bromantic homoeroticism was the cause of an international incident?

Writer seem to have a problem with homoeroticism.

The artists have always courted criticism with once - controversial themes such as homoeroticism or bodily fluids.

The essays, on everything from Fascist homoeroticism to Nazi political theater, are uneven, often turgidly written, and tend to leave promising suggestions frustratingly undeveloped, but at their best they help provide provisional answers to the three questions posed above.

Whitman is an iconic figure in the LGBT community, given the unmistakable homoeroticism in his poetry's celebration of male camaraderie.

The robots and cars are soulful, but her character is purely mechanical, a token of reassurance for viewers reveling in a spectacle of cosmic, brutal, heavy - metal homoeroticism.

Beach Rats often recalls Claire Denis's 1999 masterpiece Beau Travail in its overt homoeroticism, with Agnès Godard's capturing of topless army men engaging in calisthenics finding an equivalent in Frankie and his three male friends walking down the Brooklyn streets or doing impromptu pull - ups on a subway train.

The displaced homoeroticism is clear.

GOHATTO By Chuck Stephens After a 15 - year silence, Nagisa Oshima returns with a transfixingly beautiful, beguilingly ambiguous death dance, a tale of samurai homoeroticism and the Japanese cult of the beautiful deadly boy.

Chock full of great air combat scenes and blatant homoeroticism.

Those inclined to perceive homoeroticism in every onscreen male - on - male interaction (Hi, Ruthless!)

Loading the movie down with this much homoeroticism is another sly comment on the genre itself, which is usually about the tensions and bonds within a world of men, but rarely reflects on what those tensions and bonds really signify.

Suggestions of homoeroticism suggested by the dialogue are under - investigated by the production, and that fact typifies the production in which individual moments are impressive and often funny but cumulative, connected drama is absent.

The two women's discontent casts light on a structural homoeroticism in Highsmith's Strangers on a Train, famously filmed by Hitchcock: two men collude in a transgression to be rid of their respective encumbrances.

It's obvious that Persona - Sama wished to discuss the obvious homoeroticism denial of Megaman in his games with this reference.

Mickalene Thomas Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects By Stacey Allan Brooklyn - based Yale grad Mickalene Thomas's first solo exhibition in LA was a two - room painting installation of heavily lacquered, Swarovski - encrusted panels that visually conjoined the stylized portraiture of Seydou Keita, the talismanic gestures of Chris Ofili, and the pulp homoeroticism of the late -»60s pinup genre of «apartment wrestling.»

In the 1960s, male desire and explicit homoeroticism began to appear in Mr. Hockney's pictures, such as «Cleaning Teeth, Early Evening (10 pm) W11,» from 1962.

They have also taken on a greater relevance with their frank homoeroticism.

Adi Ness is a titan among contemporary Israeli photographers, thanks to his large - scale staged photographers that draw out homoeroticism within machismo affectations — for example, his overtly sensual photographs of Israeli soldiers, who are photographed sleeping or in other vulnerable states.

And then Victorians, lots of Pre-Raphaelites, creepy and fun stuff (e.g., George Frederic Watts, or Henry Scott Tuke for Victorian homoeroticism).

In more cryptic, abstract paintings than the ones painted in Maine, he had memorialized the young Prussian lieutenant Karl von Freyburg in Germany, with whom he was in love and who would die in World War I. His Maine figurative paintings and drawings depict brawny loggers and men in swimsuits, reflecting what to a contemporary eye is clearly homoeroticism, though apparently it was not construed as such when Hartley made the paintings.

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It is actually quite a good game, and somehow a world of sentient bots that can transform into vehicles has more of a realistic feel than the trite world Epic has flowered with homoeroticism.

The role of the hero / villain in action films always contains that nugget of homoeroticism.

The homoeroticism of this — as well as the oil rubs in the showers — is strenuously denied by the participants, as the weightlifters consider themselves only the manliest men.

The homoeroticism is, as they say, «a choice,» but it's possible that it throws Unbroken out of whack.

Ahn admirably refuses to pit «conservative» against «progressive» cultures though; after all, the protagonist's American - born, college - aged peers, dabbling in homoeroticism, but policing his gaze, are not immune to heteronormative inclinations.

It's not that the film assumes queerness in performative dude bros (though it does highlight the homoeroticism of the culture), but it doesn't grant them much depth beyond the obvious.

Throughout its running time, Sleepaway Camp is seasoned with elements of homoeroticism.

By today's standards, Freddy's Revenge is also the most dated of the series, stemming firmly in the style of filmmaking that ran rampant in teen films of the 1980s, with feathered hair, bright colored collared shirts, tight blue jeans, lip - synching musical interludes, homoeroticism, and dumb schoolhouse humor.

The film is not just outstanding but an interesting exploration of, as Hittman put it, «the fine line between heteronormative bravado and homoeroticism.»

Earlier this year, The Guardian reported that «Hittman was inspired to make Beach Rats after seeing a shirtless selfie online, captivated by the fine line between heteronormative bravado and homoeroticism.»

So the boys head off to college to bust yet another shady drugs ring, meet some more surprisingly available ladies, get into a few more shoot -»em - up car chases and crack many more obvious but amusing gags about the blurred lines between male bonding and homoeroticism.

To some extent Gohatto revisits the homoeroticism in war which marked 1982's Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence, here framed within a historical drama about the pro-Shogun militia, the Shinsengumi.

Claire Denis's film is a mesmeric, masculine ballet whose beauty and confident power, manifested in lugubrious scenes which suspend the normal rules of narrative procedure, simply go beyond conventional ideas of transgression or homoeroticism.

It's a fine example of the way only Hollywood could combine action violence, homoeroticism and sanctimoniously cheap religious piety in a way that makes way too many of people think it's the greatest film ever made.

Thankfully the cast are all game, although it's unfortunate Luna and García Bernal don't play on their previous roles together — it would have been fun for them to bring to the fore the homoeroticism that lurked under the surface of Y Tu Mamá También.

And it isn't as if the homoeroticism here makes her a soul sister to Jean Genet, even if some of her imagery — perhaps most notably a patch of lyricism about legionnaires ironing trouser creases — calls him to mind.

While it could be argued that The Wages of Fear was censored to suppress the film's homoeroticism and anti-Americanism, it also seems quite possible that the original distributor simply wanted to pack in more shows per day, or not scare away the action crowd with the movie's length.

In addition to this general existential angst, a painter like Bacon wrestled with homosexuality and homoeroticism, to powerful effect — Hockney once pungently remarked of Bacon's male nudes that «you can smell the balls».

In his new solo show, «Better Living Through Design» painter Brett Reichman looks to the oft - fetishized midcentury modern aesthetic to render desire, homoeroticism and domestic space during the 1980s and 90's AIDS crisis.

If the politics of Hartley's homoeroticism — by turns tortured and tender — have found deft treatment in the work of Jonathan Weinberg and other scholars, the racial nuances of Hartley's oeuvre await some further critical assessment.

Many of his works also suggest elements of homoeroticism.

Informed in part by his artistic emergence in the era of AIDS, Pierson's work is moored by melancholy and introspection, yet his images are often buoyed by a celebratory aura of homoeroticism, seduction and glamour.