tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6415228448079976141.post5741789839957347421..comments2024-01-17T09:06:41.408-05:00Comments on BookMenDC: Streetcar Named Desire - the FilmTimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09257203824962491470noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6415228448079976141.post-55664633174295693712011-03-06T09:07:37.633-05:002011-03-06T09:07:37.633-05:00Benton's "column" is a paid advertis...Benton's "column" is a paid advertisement. You won't be able to view it on MetroWeekly's website. You can however read it on his <a href="http://nfbenton.com/archives/2668" rel="nofollow">own</a>. I agree with his characterizations, but his assertion that Streetcar "sparked a consciousness in relevant circles, including and on college campuses across the land" is just that. <br /><br />Worth its own viewing is the <a href="http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2010/04/10/art-literature/artists-illustrators/illustrator-norman-rockwell/norman-rockwell-spring.html/attachment/cover_9330408" rel="nofollow">Norman Rockwell</a> Benton cites. There's no disputing the <b>antecedence</b> of April 8, 1933, before December 3, 1947, but "Spring Awakening" (my title) is gay mostly insofar as it's appealing to gays. As the <i>Saturday Evening Post</i> website makes clear, even in 1933 Rockwell was drawing on earlier artistic styles (Maxfield Parrish).<br /><br>Timhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09257203824962491470noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6415228448079976141.post-77731667102236164182011-03-04T15:29:43.826-05:002011-03-04T15:29:43.826-05:00aawalterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09248438652428703427noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6415228448079976141.post-71587189995255107482011-03-04T15:25:32.060-05:002011-03-04T15:25:32.060-05:00Some of you may see/read Nick Benton's somewha...Some of you may see/read Nick Benton's somewhat eccentric column in Metro Weekly. His theme this week is that the movie of Streetcar is the "Greatest Gay Film Ever" because it began "the new wave of social progress that led into the 1960." However, one feels about that statement he goes on to say something that, I think, gives an interesting answer to our question about Blanche's character being a gay one. He says "Blanche embraces the archtypical gay sensibility....She is confronted and dissembled [disassembled?] by the boorish Sranley and his slavish wife, Blanche's sister, Stella, archtypes both in their respective roles and in their relationship of brutaal white male-dominated society. The profound injustice portrayed so poignantly by Williams spoke directly to the oppression of women and gays...."walterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09248438652428703427noreply@blogger.com