![]() The elves, identical in shape and apparel, are at work on Santa’s toys, the boys wearing blue and the girls wearing pink. ![]() ![]() Claus does all the cooking and nags her husband about not eating enough. The film starts in the North Pole, where traditional gender roles are quickly reinforced. Anyone who even knows what Queer Theory is can tell you that the subtext of the narrative seems to be a pre-Stonewall contemplation of the power of coming out and embracing sexual minorities into society at large. I mean, just look at it: Rudolph is totally, absolutely, 100 percent, Neil-Patrick-Harris-French-kissing-Ricky-Martin gay. ![]() There is the suffocating consumerist melancholy of A Charlie Brown Christmas, the existential dread of a magical friend’s impending death in Frosty the Snowman, and the political allegory of Heat Miser’s rise to power that is A Year Without a Santa Clause.īut nothing, absolutely nothing, is changed with a close, analytical reading of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, the 1964 stop-motion special. Thinking back on the children’s Christmas specials of yore with an adult frame of reference can be a little bit dizzying. ![]()
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