especially women in a closeted era in which all moves of investigation let alone courtship must be made through very careful codes until relatively (to a straight, as often as not male viewer) late in the game
That's just really nutty, because even straight male critics can grasp courtship rituals in, say, Jane Austen movies. When they feel like it, I guess. But there have been endless books and movies about gay male courtship in the closet and signalling, right? Or do they just literally not see it because it doesn't affect them? Wha. This reminds me of the conversation going on at rydra's about how the women of Watergate were literally invisible -- secretaries and stenographers and typists and so on (unless they were thrown under the bus, like Rose Mary Woods).
Also if you didn't write up Carol yet, I'd love to see that at some point (no pressure!).
Also also if you haven't seen Desert Hearts, I think you might really like it https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089015/ It's based on Jane Rule's Desert of the Heart, a novel in which NEITHER WOMAN DIES OR GOES INSANE HOW ABOUT THAT https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert_of_the_Heart (suddenly I feel like I'm repeating myself....I might have gone on about this before).
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That's just really nutty, because even straight male critics can grasp courtship rituals in, say, Jane Austen movies. When they feel like it, I guess. But there have been endless books and movies about gay male courtship in the closet and signalling, right? Or do they just literally not see it because it doesn't affect them? Wha. This reminds me of the conversation going on at rydra's about how the women of Watergate were literally invisible -- secretaries and stenographers and typists and so on (unless they were thrown under the bus, like Rose Mary Woods).
Also if you didn't write up Carol yet, I'd love to see that at some point (no pressure!).
Also also if you haven't seen Desert Hearts, I think you might really like it https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089015/ It's based on Jane Rule's Desert of the Heart, a novel in which NEITHER WOMAN DIES OR GOES INSANE HOW ABOUT THAT https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert_of_the_Heart (suddenly I feel like I'm repeating myself....I might have gone on about this before).