A Single Man and a Tragic Woman
2013; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 14; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/14680777.2013.823623
ISSN1471-5902
Autores Tópico(s)Cinema and Media Studies
ResumoDepicting the fraught relationship between a gay man and his straight female best friend, Tom Ford's A Single Man (2009) offers a complex, and often contradictory, depiction of its leading female character, Charley. At once glamorous and troubled, stunning and damaged, Charley reproduces a number of problematic stereotypes regarding women, in general, and fag hags, in particular. At the center of these problems is the film's insinuation that Charley has a melancholic attachment to George, her gay male companion. At first glance, A Single Man reproduces Freudian constructs of melancholy as a pathological response to traumatic loss; this essay argues, however, that the film's many ambivalences also offer opportunities for critical consideration of melancholy as a tactical response to heteronormativity.
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