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FILM 332 Queer Cinemas Units: 3.00
This course will examine the development of queer filmmaking practices in Hollywood and beyond. It will also introduce the field of queer cinema studies, attending to questions of identity, representation, authorship, and spectatorship. Students will cover a diverse array of topics, with a focus on historical, artistic, and industry contexts.
Learning Hours: 108 (36 Lecture, 24 Laboratory, 48 Private Study)
Requirements: Prerequisite (Registration in a FILM, MAPP, or COFI Plan) or (registration in a GNDS Plan and GNDS 120 and GNDS 125).
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Contextualize evolutions in film form and narrative within changing political landscapes.
- Cultivate an appreciation for queer aesthetics, history, scholarship, and the integral role queer artists and scholars have played in shaping filmmaking practices and criticism.
- Demonstrate inclusive and accountable film criticism and research while completing written assignments and participating in class discussions on history, identity and representation.
- Explain critical theoretical concepts in queer cinema studies in relation to the evolution of film form, production, history, and politics of representation.
- Use key readings in queer theory and film studies to analyze formal and structural elements in select screenings.