MS 142 PO

This seminar explores the intersection of cinema and media aesthetics, sexuality, and queer theory. We will consider a range of creative works from the era of silent cinema through to contemporary online media, asking how sexuality functions within them as a disturbing force shaping what can be seen and what cannot be articulated, and how they draw on and interrogate ideas of desire, the couple, the family, community, reproduction, and sociality itself. To this analysis we will bring resources from critical theory, especially feminist, queer, and trans theory. Weekly film screening required.