According to what Michel Foucault wrote in The History of Sexuality (1978), the construction of sexuality was "thoroughly imbued with relations of power"; translating this to the media, we can appreciate material created for a supposedly mainly heterosexual audience [REF].
As proposed in Leslie Fiedler's essay "Come Back to the Raft Ag'in, Huck Honey!", in which he argued that a recurrent theme in American literature was an unspoken or implied homoerotic relationship between men.