Resumen de El tercer cuerpo: estructuras en la construcción del sujeto masculino en las películas narrativas gays
Classical homoerotic imagery presupposed three different characterizations in the construction and expression of the male body. Two of them were objects of the homoerotic gaze, the ephebe (or adolescent youth) and the mature athlete, which are fairly unproblematic visually. These predicated in turn a third body, an implied gay subject, the invisible desiring body of the producer-spectator- behind the camera, rarely visualized within the frame. This third body stood in for the authorial self as well as for the assumed gay spectator. Representation of this third body is unstable and has become problematic.
In the gay-authored narrative cinema, as gay themes become more and more explicit after the Second World War, filmmakers replace the alibis of their precursors with an agenda of self-representation and self definiton. Follwing a roughly chronological approach, Thomas Waugh traces the characterization of this “third body” in a number of texts ranging from Mikael to Death in Venice and Teorema. Waugh explores ways to characterize the desiring homosexual, as well as recurrent narrative motifs in plots with gays characters, reflecting diverse conceptions of sexual dissidence.
