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The Power of the Dog: Whose Gaze? Reading Savage's Novel, Watching Campion's Film
- American Imago
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 80, Number 4, Winter 2023
- pp. 805-830
- 10.1353/aim.2023.a918112
- Article
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Abstract
Abstract:
The chapter compares and critiques two versions of one story: the original novel and its cinematic treatment over 50 years later. It briefly reviews changes in clinical and social ideas about gender and sexuality, especially homosexuality, during the 20th and 21st centuries. Then it addresses theoretical differences between the genres of text and film, and the idea of the "male gaze." Through close readings of the novel and the film, it demonstrates energies and tensions between concepts of male and female, gay and straight.
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