Men Behaving Badly: Passages (2023)

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1 It’s Not Porn, It’s HBO (dir. Alberto Belli, 2014). Accessed 2 September 2023. https://vimeo.com/106985968.

2 In addition to Heartstopper’s Nick Nelson (Kit Connor), notable recent bisexual male television characters not pathologized include Schitt’s Creek’s David Rose (Daniel Levy), Torchwood’s Captain Jack Harkness (John Barrowman), and The Summer I Turned Pretty’s Jeremiah Fisher (Gavin Casalegno).

3 See, for example, Odile Henderson, “‘Passages’: A ‘horny film’ with a love triangle and a sociopath,” The Boston Globe (10 August 2023). Accessed 14 September 2023. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/08/10/arts/passages-love-triangle-tinged-with-lamour-fou/?event=event12; David Sexton, “Passages is Ira Sachs’s ‘horny film,’” The New Statesman (25 August 2023). Accessed 15 September 2023. https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/film/2023/08/passages-review-ira-sachs-horny-film; and Armond White, “Passages Strikes Out,” National Review (9 August 2023). Accessed 15 September 2023. https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/08/passages-strikes-out/.

4 See Freda Cooper, “Ira Sachs on Passages: ‘Film and literature are filled with men behaving badly’”, whynot (31 August 2023). Accessed 27 June 2024. https://whynow.co.uk/read/ira-sachs-passages-interview

5 Henderson, “‘Passages.’” https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/08/10/arts/passages-love-triangle-tinged-with-lamour-fou/?event=event12.

6 Maya Phillips, “Liberating? Exploitative? A Nude Scene Summer Report Card,” New York Times (3 September 2023). Accessed 27 June 2024. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/03/movies/nudity-onscreen-idol-oppenheimer.html

7 Linda Williams, Screening Sex (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008), 266.

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Maria San Filippo

Maria San Filippo is Associate Professor of Visual and Media Arts at Emerson College. She authored the Lambda Literary Award-winning The B Word: Bisexuality in Contemporary Film and Television (2013) and Provocauteurs and Provocations: Screening Sex in 21st Century Media (2021), both published by Indiana University Press, and the Lambda Literary Award-winning Queer Film Classics volume Appropriate Behavior (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2022), and edited After ‘Happily Ever After’: Romantic Comedy in the Post-Romantic Age (Wayne State University Press, 2021).