DVD Reviews February 2010
| 25 January 2010
The Children’s Hour (1961)
Witnessing a chaste kiss between Karen (Audrey Hepburn) and Martha (Shirley MacLaine), the spoiled and petulant child Mary concocts rumours of a lesbian affair between her teachers, which results in parents swiftly withdrawing their children and the school’s imminent collapse.
The women do what they can to fight the accusations and to stand up to the prejudice they encounter, but soon we learn that Martha really is in love with Karen.
Though it now seems extremely dated, The Children’s Hour is nonetheless an important film in the history of queer cinema.
Its star power ensured a wide audience, and its sympathetic portrayal of lesbians as ordinary people.
Lesbian Sex and Sexuality 2
This series is good, there is no doubt about it.
This episode looks at the phenomena of roller derby and why it's ‘just so hot right now’.
While academics enter into discourse about the return of camp and how camp is being claimed in lesbian culture, the girls just want to get out there and, as the Americans say, "kick some butt".
Lesbians love of burlesque is then explored with the only let down being that the actual performers deliver a really basic understanding of burlesque that any savvy Aussie dyke will yawn at.
Finally Jello Wrestling and its followers are considered.
Overall this series is a great document of contemporary lesbian culture.
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