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Rock Hudson's Home Movies

Mark Rappaport • 1h 3m

Directed by Mark Rappaport • Documentary • With Eric Farr • 1992 • 63 minutes

Rock Hudson’s Home Movies is a provocatively entertaining and hugely influential film essay from Mark Rappaport (From the Journals of Jean Seberg). It uses a collage of film clips from throughout Hudson’s career, and a winking performance by Eric Farr as a Hudson stand-in, to highlight the homosexual subtext in his work. Subversive, hilarious, and profoundly enlightening, its use of video became a model for the future of film criticism as it mutated on YouTube, TikTok and beyond.

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20th century, art, bio, biography, cinema, cinema studies, collage, communication and media studies, culture, doc, documentary, expository, film and video studies, film essay, film history, gay and lesbian studies, gender and sexuality, gender studies, history, kino lorber, lgb, lgbtq, mark rappaport, ovid, reenactment, rock hudson, rock hudson's home movies

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