Descriptif

This course will examine some of the key concepts, debates and issues in gender studies with regard to queer
representation and the moving image. Queer cinemas have historically been relegated to a position of lesser
importance - or in some cases no importance - and even today their relationship with the image, in particular
with regard to appearances, is not straightforward. The programme will introduce students to analysis of
films that arguably fit in the ‘queer canon’ as well as films that ‘queer’ gender. We will study some of the
most important texts on visual representation in anglophone academia to date, bringing together questions of
class, race, sexuality and gender.