WGS 3173 Queer Film & Media Studies
This seminar explores "queer theory" as applied to one of its key texts, the mass media and particularly film. We historicize lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered and other queer media from Weimar culture to Hollywood's Production Code era, from underground cinema to later cracks into mainstream, avant-garde and new media. Coverage of AIDS receives attention, as do lesbian-feminist issues, the now-mainstream representations in TV, broadcast news and social media, plus New Queer Cinema, controversial artists in photography, and other U.S. and international expressions of queer politics, activism and culture. Research paper required. Prerequisite: One previous course in film studies, or CAM 1001 and instructor permission. (Every other year)