From The Bend: Male Nudity in Cinema / Dr. Alexandra Heller-Nicholas & Prof. Peter Lehman

This episode is from my other podcast The Bend but it's really what Somebody's Watching is about! Thanks again to horror specialist Dr. Alexandra Heller-Nicholas and film professor Professor Peter Lehman for their time, it was an honor to be able to chat with them. Enjoy!



A Selection of Peter Lehman’s Work:
Running Scared: Masculinity and the Representation of the Male Body
Masculinity: Bodies, Movies, Culture
Pornography: Film and Culture
Peter Lehman’s Arizona State University Profile

A Selection of Alexandra Heller-Nicholas’ Work:
Rape-Revenge Films: A Critical Study
1000 Women In Horror, 1895-2018
The Giallo Canvas: Art, Excess and Horror Cinema
Alexandra Heller-Nicholas’ Website

Watching Rape, the book Alexandra mentions
Wesley Morris’ NY Times article on Black male sexuality

Films mentioned:

The Virgin Spring (1960)

Drive, He Said (1971)

Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971)

Last House on the Left (1972)

I Spit On Your Grave (1978)

Sweet Savage (1979)

A Room with a View (1985)

Drifting Into Chaos (1989)

The Pillow Book (1996)

Traps (1998)

Baise Moi (2000)

Django Unchained (2012)

PVT Chat (2020)

Zola (2020)

Minx (2022-)


Kevin Bacon’s penis PSA