Although famously, just before Rick and Ilsa embrace for their big dramatic kiss in Casablanca and Dooley Wilson sings the iconic words "A kiss is just a kiss," film and stage kisses between men remain a disputed topic. Referring to Andy Warhol's film Kiss of 1963, Linda Williams asserts ...
The cast of characters—a cat and a mouse, this is the latter. The intended victim who may or may not know that he is to die, be it by butchery or ballet. His name is Major Ivan Kuchenko. He has, if events go according to certain plans, perhaps three or four more hours of livi...
thehotelroomis a safe haven for them, but it is also a proverbial closet. As such, the hotelroom functions as a precarious liminal space, a contested middle ground be-tween the public and the private, between being ‘out’ and remaining ‘in.’ EveKosofsky Sedgwick has called...