Resumen de Responsabilidades del crítico del cine gay
Very little has been written on how critics’ sexual orientation may shape their writings on film. However, it cannot be denied that for a long time film criticism was a mostly male profession and their authors conventionally came to express heterosexual perspectives in discussing stars and narratives, whatever their actual orientation was. Robin Wood was the first critic who dared to face these issues, and in this article he explores the way in which his experience as an individual coming to terms with his own homosexuality changed his perceptions of the films he enjoyed. Two instances are discussed. On the one hand, Wood refers to the way in which he came to realize how key films by Ingmar Bergman were actually homophobic or sexually conservative. On the other hand, he dwells on the more generous spirit in the films of Howard Hawks, a Hollywood director that tended to be considered a reactionary, but whose films allow for sexual heterodoxy in their treatment of women characters and male friendships.
