LGBTQ/Queer Cinema

This class investigates LGBTQ identities, communities, and relationships pre-, post-, and during the Stonewall era through cinema, television, and new media. We will explore the politics of representation and enjoyment, the transformative effects of censorship, and the ways in which class and race govern access to particular expressions of gender, sex, and sexuality. We will contextualize our viewings with queer history and theory, tracing queer life through the decades and across a broad range of transnational film cultures.