Beefcake

Beefcake

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Release Date

9/1/1998

Runtime

91 mins

Overview

A look at the 1950s muscle men's magazines and the representative industry which were popular supposedly as health and fitness magazines, but were in reality primarily being purchased by the still-underground homosexual community. Chief among the purveyors of this literature was Bob Mizer, who maintained a magazine and developed sexually inexplicit men's films for over 40 years. Aided by his mother, the two maintained a stable of not so innocent studs.

Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

-

Revenue

$276,379

Homepage

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A reverent excavation of underground gay culture and the coded visual language of desire that thrived in repressive 1950s America. It's a portrait of quiet resistance told through interviews and archival images, intimate, historically urgent, and deeply human.

Mood

WistfulDefiantContemplative

Themes

IdentityFreedomArt and creation

Tone

Earnest

Pacing

Meditative

Look

Documentary-like

Structure

Framed flashback

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