Spring 2025 Film BC3331 section 001

QUEER VISIONS IN CONTEMPORARY FILM

QUEER VISIONS IN CONT FIL

Call Number 00195
Day & Time
Location
M 12:30pm-4:00pm
To be announced
Points 3
Grading Mode Standard
Approvals Required None
Instructor Duygu Ula
Type LECTURE
Course Description

In this class, we will focus on recurring themes and questions of contemporary queer cinema by engaging with a number of film genres and forms, and explore how filmmakers create queer visions of the world through their cinematic practices. We will also consider how these queer films are informed by various local, national, cultural and political contexts. Through a comparative, transnational and intersectional approach that takes into consideration the particularities of each filmmaker’s context, we will aim to answer the following questions: How do various cultural, national, linguistic, religious contexts affect the way queer identities are defined and depicted visually? How do these filmmakers create queer narratives that contest, complicate or reify dominant narratives of gender and sexuality? How do they play around with cinematic and genre conventions?

Films, directors and genres studied are subject to change but will likely include directors such as Celine Sciamma, Cheryl Dunye, Pedro Almodovar, Todd Haynes, among others; and various genres such as drama, romance, thriller, mockumentary, thriller and experimental film. 

Web Site Vergil
Department Film @Barnard
Enrollment 18 students (18 max) as of 12:06PM Friday, December 6, 2024
Status Full
Subject Film
Number BC3331
Section 001
Division Barnard College
Section key 20251FILM3331X001