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Victoria Wiet

Victoria Wiet is an assistant professor of English at DePauw University whose essays and reviews have appeared in Public Books, Politics/Letters, v21 Collective, Nineteenth-Century Literature, and elsewhere. She is currently working on a book about how the theatre influenced Victorian novels’ representation of sexual diversity.

Few Films Understand the History of Blackmail and Queer Criminalization Better than Basil Dearden’s Victim

This classic noir, starring icon Dirk Bogarde, uses the conventions of melodrama and detective cinema to explore a persisting crime: the extortion of queer men

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Victoria Wiet

Few Films Understand the History of Blackmail and Queer Criminalization Better than Basil Dearden’s Victim

This classic noir, starring icon Dirk Bogarde, uses the conventions of melodrama and detective cinema to explore a persisting crime: the extortion of queer men

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