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Tamara Cooper
C LIT 302
Seattle Campus
Overview of the main conceptual problems in film criticism such as: "what is a film?", "what is the relationship between film and reality?", "does a film have a language?", "what is the connection between image and sound?" Follows a historical timeline within five individual sections.
Class description
Cross listed with Women's Studies 490A, the course Feminist and Queer Cinema considers the discussion of ‘female’ and ‘male’ bodies as visual text from the 1980s to present. What do gender and sexuality mean? What has gender to do with representations of sexuality? When and where do we begin to consider a transitioning body? Students will look at moments of intersection between race/ class/ gender and sexuality as they complicate political agendas and blur binaries between male and female, gay and straight. We will look at the emergence of queer theory as it becomes central to feminist theory in the context of international independent queer and feminist narrative and documentary film.
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