INST 2613 - Screening Sexuality

Hours: 3
On screen, sexuality can seduce, captivate, and unsettle the contemporary moviegoer. It can trouble the binaries between men and women, straight and gay. It can exceed what we know about the body, love, and pleasure. It can be inextricably situated in race, class, gender, family, religion, nation, age, ability, and more. An immersion in “cinema sexuality,” exploring its history and power. What narratives of personhood does the “sex pic” create? How do these movies depict bodies, relationships, cultures, and subcultures? What paradoxes of visibility and identity does the sex pic explore? How do these films reimagine desire and pleasure? How do they understand the relationship between private and public “goods,” between intimate experience and sociopolitical action, between sexual and social liberation? Engaging in relevant film criticism and encountering the work of groundbreaking directors, including Lisa Cholodenko, Todd Haynes, Ang Lee, and others. Substantive attention will be given to global cinema, including recent films from Uruguay, India, and Iran.

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INST 2613 - Screening Sexuality