Mr. Wint – Pulp & Pep https://monicanolan.com/pulppep An exploration of lesbian pulps and 1950s teen romance Tue, 19 Feb 2019 20:43:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.3 120614702 Now You See Them https://monicanolan.com/pulppep/2014/01/27/now-you-see-them/ https://monicanolan.com/pulppep/2014/01/27/now-you-see-them/#comments Mon, 27 Jan 2014 22:08:30 +0000 http://monicanolan.jayuen.com/pulppep/?p=442

It’s funny how much flies right over your head when you’re young and ignorant. For example, when I first read A Streetcar Named Desire, I totally missed the fact that Stanley rapes Blanche; I thought their only problem was the way Blanche hogged the bathroom (listen, I was only twelve). Even more embarrassing, I’ve watched The Third Man literally dozens of times, but it was only the other night, at Noir City 2014‘s Castro screening that I realized two of the supporting players form a gay couple.

How could I have missed them? Baron Kurtz (Ernst Deutsch) with his little dog and heavy eyeliner, and Dr. Winkle (“Doctor … Read more

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