FMST 1417 - QUEER CINEMAS

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Long Description While sexuality in the cinema has been subjected to various ideological and regulatory constraints, the same has also been true of lived sexuality. Likewise, and despite appearances, the history of sexual representation in the media is just as dynamically diverse as the history of sexualities as lived in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This course is both a general introduction to queer theory-especially as it relates to visual culture-and an investigation into queer theory's impact on media history, media criticism, and/or film and video production. A portion of the course will be devoted to reevaluating the history of the dominant media's narrative representation and regulation of queer bodies and subjectivities. The course will also serve as a brief survey of contemporary LGBTQ media practices. Course screenings and readings are occasions for pleasure, as well as occasions to think through the implications and problems of different, queer, and deviant representational strategies.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis

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