GWS 295-01 - Special Topic: Queer Cinema

4 credits (Spring)

Queer Cinema is a powerful rubric that encompasses the many films exploring constructions of sexuality, gender, desire, and fantasy. Yet, what makes a film “queer,” and how is sexuality represented visually? As a survey of the many different films that we might identify as Queer Cinema, this course will explore topics such as Hollywood and celebrity, AIDS media activism, the politics of drag performance, envisioning transsexuality, New Queer Film, fetishism, porn, and global queer diasporas. We will especially investigate the circulation of race, nation, and the body throughout these films.

Prerequisite: GWS 111, ENG 120 or HUM 185 (formerly numbered HUM-211).
Instructor: Khactu