Queer Cinema and Visual Culture

Calendar

SES#	TOPICS	KEY DUE DATES
1	Introduction and overview Screening:  The Celluloid Closet. Directed by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman. Color and Black and White, 104 min. 1996.
Special screening: I Am Not Your Negro. Directed by Raoul Peck. Color and Black and White, 93 min. 2017.
I. Pre-Stonewall & the Hollywood Production Code: The Making of a Gay Subtext
2	Before Stonewall / Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton’s Cafeteria Screening: Excerpts from Before Stonewall. Directed by Greta Schiller and Robert Rosenberg. Color and Black and White, 87 min. 1985. Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton’s Cafeteria. Directed by Victor Silverman and Susan Stryker. Color, 57 min. 2005. Discussion of pre-Stonewall cultural climate and what makes a text “queer” (Cather, Hall, Sedgwick)	Facebook post due: Initial impressions of the pre-Stonewall cultural climate for LGBTQ Americans
3	Discussion: Rope. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Color, 80 min. 1948.	Facebook post due: Response to Rope and the concept of confession as it relates to homosexuality
4	Discussion: The Children’s Hour. Directed by William Wyler. Black and White, 108 min. 1961.	Facebook post due: Response to The Children’s Hour and the loosening of the Hollywood Production Code
II. Looking Back: Representing a Queer Past
5	Discussion: The Danish Girl. Directed by Tom Hooper. Color, 119 min. 2016.	Facebook post due: Response to The Danish Girl and representational politics of casting
6	Discussion: Carol. Directed by Todd Haynes. Color, 118 min. 2016.	Facebook post due: Response to Carol and the challenges of looking back in time at LGBT lives  Critical response / review essay due
7	Discussion: Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic	Facebook post due: Response to Fun Home and graphic novel as queer text
8	Representations of AIDS & Black Masculinity Discussion: Philadelphia. Directed by Jonathan Demme. Color, 125 min. 1994. Screening and discussion: Tongues Untied. Directed by Marlon Riggs. Color, 55 min. 1989. Final paper / project guidelines	Facebook post due: Response to Philadelphia and the cinematic representation of AIDS
III. New Queer Cinema
9	Discussion: Paris Is Burning. Directed by Jennie Livingston. Color, 71 min. 1991.	Facebook post due: Response to Paris Is Burning and the performativity of gender Final paper / project description for independent option due
10	Discussion: Camp	Draft of prospectus for final paper / project due
11	Discussion: The Watermelon Woman. Directed by Cheryl Dunye. Color, 90 min. 1997.	Facebook post due: Response to The Watermelon Woman, fake documentary, and / or the invisibility of black lesbians
IV. Contemporary Queer, Contemporary Trans
12	Discussion: Free CeCe! Directed by Jacqueline Gares. Color, 100 min. 2018.	Facebook post due: Response to Free CeCe!
13	Discussion: Sense8. Color, 60 min. episodes. 2015–2018. New directions in streaming TV	Final paper / project due