Excellent session today (week 6). Here's the Fight Club as Brokeback Mountain video as discussed. http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=phcbqQu5Exk.
This raises in a different way some of the issues we talked about today - especially how the cultural construction of straight masculinity often encodes a homo-erotics. (Thinking of John Wayne and the classical Western.)
So, we might start from a sense of 'BBM' as a revisionist Western, adapting the tropes of the Western to encode a gay (or as we said, bisexual) love story.
...But we might also see BBM as making explicit a homo-erotics that was present, but implicit, in the Western all along. Demythologising and re-encoding.
'Love is a force of nature' - ie Ennis buys into the socially constructed roles of husband, father and breadwinner, but his 'real' feelings turn out to be elsewhere.
I look forward to your further comments...
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