Rope (1948)

<p>Shut the antique wooden chest and choke your chicken because we're heading to a posh Manhattan penthouse for a classy dinner party in Alfred Hitchcock's 1948 technical marvel (and uber-queer film) <em>Rope</em>!</p><p>Join us as we kick off the episode discussing Leopold &amp; Loeb, the real-life "perfect murder" case that serves as the inspiration for the film (among many others) before delving into just <em>how queer </em>this movie is. We've got a queer screenwriter and multiple queer actors and some truly bitchy 1940s dialogue.</p><p>Plus, stigmatizing tops and bottoms (boo!), a murder set piece doubling as a sex scene, a Jason Sudeikis/Hugo Weaving hybrid, a <em>50 Shades of Grey </em>tangent and, of course, minding our p's and q's.</p><p>References:</p><ul><li>Badman, Scott&nbsp;&nbsp;&amp; Connie Rusell Hosier.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.us.mensa.org/read/bulletin/features/gay-coding-in-hitchcock-films/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Gay Coding in Hitchcock Films.&nbsp;<em>Mensa&nbsp;</em></a></li><li>Fabian Brathwaite, Les. "Hays’d: Decoding the Classics — ‘Rope’"&nbsp;<a href="https://www.indiewire.com/2014/03/haysd-decoding-the-classics-rope-214547/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Indiewire</a></li><li>Greven, David.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.colorado.edu/gendersarchive1998-2013/2012/12/01/making-meal-manhood-revisiting-rope-and-question-hitchcocks-homophobia" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Making a Meal of Manhood: Revisiting Rope and the Question of Hitchcock’s Homophobia</a></li><li>White, Armand. <a href="https://www.out.com/armond-white/2017/8/04/how-hitchcocks-classic-mystery-rope-cleverly-depicted-queer-life" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How Hitchcock’s Classic Mystery&nbsp;<em>Rope</em>&nbsp;Cleverly Depicted Queer Life</a></li><li>Coates, Tyler. <a href="https://decider.com/2014/08/11/alfred-hitchcock-gay-strangers-on-a-train-and-rope/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">When Hitchcock Went Gay: ‘Strangers On A Train’ And ‘Rope’</a></li><l