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med_librarian's review
2.0
Strangers on a Train--book and film--are loaded with queer subtexts and texts. Both the film and the book, which you should definitely read if you haven't already, are fantastic.
But this is a really slight piece of film crit, literally and figuratively. It feels padded and I would have thought that wouldn't be so necessary. I'm unclear why Robert Walker's real life gender identity is important to a reading of the film. Also, having recently read Farley Granger's Include Me Out, which Goldberg references, I noticed how Goldberg cherry picks.
So while I think there's definitely a book that looks at the queer subtexts and texts of the film and book, I don't think you'll find it in Goldberg's.
But this is a really slight piece of film crit, literally and figuratively. It feels padded and I would have thought that wouldn't be so necessary. I'm unclear why Robert Walker's real life gender identity is important to a reading of the film. Also, having recently read Farley Granger's Include Me Out, which Goldberg references, I noticed how Goldberg cherry picks.
So while I think there's definitely a book that looks at the queer subtexts and texts of the film and book, I don't think you'll find it in Goldberg's.
wendell's review
3.5
Decently interesting queer reading of the Hitchcock classic. Takes a couple different approaches to it and some arguments are largely more convincing than others.