How do either or both of these texts render masculinity? What models of masculinity are on display? Who do you think is the imagined viewer? How is the imagined viewer interpellated into the text? How might we understand this text in relation to Mulvey? To Cohan? To Gledhill?

For Scorpio Rising specifically–how might we interpret this film in terms of Foucault’s notions of ethics and technologies of self? How does the film combine music and image to imagine (new/revised) ways in which masculinity might “be played” (in the Foucaultian sense..)?

How do these two television programs, in their own way, respond to/contribute to discourses of sexuality and masculinity in American Culture? What modes of masculinity do they represent and to what effect?

You could consider whether they model or offer a set of ethics or tools for technology of self. You could also consider whether they represent institutionalized power or revolutionary response to that power.