INST 4010 - Media Q: Screening Sexuality

Hours: 4
Glee. Hedwig. The L-Word. Brokeback. Queer as Folk. Capote. Modern Family. Diving into television and film, this class will immerse itself in queer media, exploring the worlds and selves they create. Together we will engage questions of representation, spectatorship, and meaning-making, grappling with small and large screen depictions of sexual identity. What narratives of sexuality and selfhood do queer media create? How do queer media depict glbtq bodies, biologies, psychologies, relationships, histories, and subcultures? What acts of defiance, resistance, activism, or transgression do they encode? What paradoxes of visibility or dilemmas of identity do queer media expose? How do queer movies and television shows (re)write the principles of “intimate citizenship” and “sexual democracy”? As we watch, read, write, and dialogue, students will encounter the work of groundbreaking directors and cutting-edge theorists, including Lisa Cholodenko, Gus Van Sant, Gregg Araki, Cheryl Dunye, Ruby Rich, Henry Benshoff, and others.

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INST 4010 - Media Q: Screening Sexuality