Contemporary Queer Cinema

Course Description

Examines queer cinema from the nineties to the present, looking at various types of movies from around the world. Explores how contemporary cinema represents queer identities and experiences in diverse societies and at intersections of race, gender, class, and other social contrasts. Incorporates films and film clips from various cinema traditions (East Asia, Europe, Latin America, Bollywood, United States) and genres (romcom, melodrama, horror, sci-fi, coming-of-age, animation, documentary) to consider how cinema contributes to queer readings and understandings of such issues as pleasure and precarity, freedom and violence, health and the body, family and citizenship, beauty and banality. Analyzes queer cinema, ultimately, as a global arts practice and a powerful and nuanced mode of social commentary and representational politics. For this 4-credit class, 3 credits are for standard in-class contact and 1 credit accounts for assigned films to be watched each week by students on their own.

Code

ANTH 386

Credits

4

Subject

ANTH