Sutured Looks and Homoeroticism: Reading Troilus and Pandarus Cinematically

Author / Editor
Zeikowitz, Richard E.

Title
Sutured Looks and Homoeroticism: Reading Troilus and Pandarus Cinematically

Published
Tison Pugh and Marcia Smith Marzec,eds. Men and Masculinities in Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde" (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2008), pp. 148-60.

Description
Zeikowitz articulates the "largely unnarrated 'ocular logic' of the exchanges between Troilus and Pandarus" in Book 1 of TC and "teases out the subtle homoeroticism underlying their interaction." The essay focuses on the cinematic technique of "suturing," whereby the audience is drawn into a character's perspective without initially being aware of the point of view.

Alternative Title
Men and Masculinities in Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde."

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde