COURSE CALENDAR
Unit 1: An Introduction to Queer Cinema
WEEK 1 (Aug 31/Sept 2): WHAT IS QUEER CINEMA?
Viewing
History of Homosexuality on Film (Just Write, 2015): https://youtu.be/SeDhMKd83r4
A Brief History of Western Queer Cinema (Diawyn, 2020): https://youtu.be/fQtPInSCGlU
For second class read:
Richard Dyer, “Queer Noir” in The Culture of Queers (2002)
Judith Butler, “Critically Queer,” in Bodies That Matter (1993)
THU, SEPT. 2: QUEER NOIR
Screening
Rope (Alfred Hitchcock, USA/UK, 1948, 81 min)
WEEK 2 (Sept 7/9): CODED WITHIN THE CODE
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Screening
The Children’s Hour (William Wyler, USA, 1961, 108 min)
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For second class read:
Patricia White, “Reading the Code(s)” and “Lesbian Cinephilia,” in unInvited: Classical Hollywood Cinema and Lesbian Representability (1999)
Alexander Doty, “There’s Something Queer Here,” in Making Things Perfectly Queer (1990)
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, “Epistemology of the Closet”
Viewing
Meeting of Two Queens (Cecilia Barriga, 1991): https://youtu.be/l3xa7AoI_YE
The History of Queer Coding (Jessica Kellgren-Fozard, 2020): https://youtu.be/GsO4fZYHQic
WEEK 3 (Sept 14/16): QUEER AVANT-GARDE AND SURREALIST CINEMA
Screening
Funeral Parade of Roses (Toshio Matsumoto, Japan, 1969, 107 min)
For second class read:
Maurizio Viano, “Teorema” in A Certain Realism (1993)
Angelo Restivo, “Pasolini and the Limits of Resistance” in The Cinema of Economic Miracles (2002)
Viewing
Un chant d’amour (Jean Genet, France, 1950, 26 min)
Unit 2: Post-Stonewall
WEEK 4 (Sept 21/23): QUEER DOCUMENTING
Screening
Portrait of Jason (Shirley Clarke, USA, 1967, 105 min)
For second class read:
B. Ruby Rich, “Before the Beginning: Lineages and Preconceptions,” in New Queer Cinema (2013)
John Powers, “Peeling Away the Layers in A 'Portrait of Jason'” (2013)
Manohla Dargis, “One Man, Saved from Invisibility” (2013)
Viewing
Songs, Skits, Poetry, and Prison Life (Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, 1974) or
Scorpio Rising (Kenneth Anger, USA, 1964, 30 min)
WEEK 5 (Sept 28/30): QUEER EXPERIMENTING
Screening
Je, tu, il, elle (Chantal Akerman, Belgium, 1974, 90 min)
For second class read:
Barbara Hammer, “Lesbian Filmmaking: Self-Birthing” (1978)
Richard Dyer, “Underground and After” in Now You See It (1990)
Viewing
Dyketactics (Barbara Hammer, USA, 1974, 4 min)
Home Movie (Jan Oxenberg, USA, 1972, 12 min)
Women I Love (Barbara Hammer, USA, 1976, 23 min)
WEEK 6 (Oct 5/7): RACE, SEX AND THE CINEMA OF AIDS
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Screening
Tongues Untied (Marlon T. Riggs, USA, 1989, 55 min)
Paris is Burning (Jennie Livingston, USA, 1990, 78 min)
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For second class read:
Marlon T. Riggs, “Black Macho Revisited: Reflections of a Snap! Queen” (1991)
Ronald Gregg, “PBS and AIDS” (1992)
Monica B. Pearl, “AIDS and New Queer Cinema” in New Queer Cinema (2004)
Douglas Crimp, “Mourning and Militancy”
Paul B. Preciado, “Learning From the Virus”
Unit 3: New Queer Cinema
WEEK 7 (Oct 12/14): NEW QUEER CINEMA
Screening
My Own Private Idaho (Gus Van Sant, USA, 1991, 105)
For second class read:
B. Ruby Rich, “The New Queer Cinema: Director’s Cut,” in NQC (2013)
Michele Aaron, “New Queer Cinema: An Introduction.” (2004)
Su Friedrich, “Does Radical Content Deserve Radical Form?” (1989
Viewing
New Queer Cinema: Style as Context (myfilmdiary, 2020): https://youtu.be/VyfqsFvYYHE
Me and Rubyfruit (Benning, 1990)
First Comes Love (Friedrich, 1991)
WEEK 8 (Oct 19/21): NATIONALIZED SEXUALITY
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Screening
Happy Together (Wong Kar-wai, Hong Kong, 1997, 99 min)
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For second class read:
Andrew Grossman, “The Rise of Homosexuality and the Dawn of Communism in Hong Kong Film”
Helen Hok-Sze Leung, “New Queer Cinema and Third Cinema” in New Queer Cinema: A Critical Reader
WEEK 9 (Oct 26/28): RACIALIZED SEXUALITY
Screening
Moonlight (Barry Jenkins, USA, 2016, 111 min)
For second class read:
Belismar Gómez, ““That Ain’t You, Chiron”: Representations of Queer Black (Hyper)Masculinity in Barry Jenkins’s Moonlight” (2020)
Kara Keeling, “’Joining the Lesbians’: Cinematic Regimes of Black Lesbian Visibility” (2005)
Viewing
Moonlight Explained (The Take, 2017): https://youtu.be/Ot9DX5S8aHk
Moonlight and Wong Kar-wai (Alessio Marinacci, 2017): https://youtu.be/66cIeb_nNO4
WEEK 10 (Nov 2/4): QUEER NEO-NOIR
Screening
Bound (The Wachowskis, USA, 1996, 109 min)
For second class read:
Chris Straayer, “Femme Fatale or Lesbian Femme: Bound in Sexual Difference” in Women in Film Noir (1998)
Lee Wallace, “Continuous Sex: The Editing of Homosexuality in Bound and Rope.” Screen 41.4 (2000)
Unit 4: 21st Century Queer Cinema
WEEK 11 (Nov 9/11): TRANSCINEMA AND MELODRAMA
Screening
Todo Sobre Mi Madre (Pedro Almodóvar, Spain, 1999, 105 min)
For second class read:
Jay Prosser, “Judith Butler, Queer Feminism, Transgender, and the Transubstantiation of Sex,” in Second Skins (1998)
Mark Allinson, “Mimesis and Diegesis: Almodóvar and the Limits of Melodrama” (2009)
WEEK 12 (Nov 16/18): ROMANCE
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Screening
Weekend (Haigh, UK, 2011, 97’)
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For second class read:
B. Ruby Rich, “What’s a Good Gay Film?” and “A Queer and Present Danger: The Death of New Queer Cinema?” in NQC (2013);
Stephanie Clare, “(Homo)normativity’s Romance: Happiness and Indigestion in Andrew Haigh’s Weekend” (2013)
WEEK 13 (Nov 23/25): NOSTALGIA AND LOOKING BACK
Screening
Carol (Todd Haynes, 2015, 118 min)
For second class read:
Patricia White, “Sketchy Lesbians: Carol as History and Fantasy” (2015)
Gilad Padva, “What is Queer about Nostalgia?” in Queer Nostalgia (2014)
Viewing
WEEK 12 (Nov 30/Dec 2): THE NOW, THE FUTURE
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Screening
Appropriate Behaviour (Desiree Akhavan, USA, 90 min)
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For second class read:
Alexandra Juhasz and Ming-Yuen S. Ma, “Queer Media Manifestos”
José Esteban Muñoz, “Feeling Utopia” in Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity
**FINAL PAPER/PROJECT DUE DURING EXAM WEEK**
*FILMS ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE*
*ALL READINGS AND LECTURE SLIDES WILL BE AVAILABLE ON MOODLE*