Syllabus
Kateřina Kolářová
KH/office hours: THU 18:00-19:00
(or as individually arranged) cakaba@seznam.cz
PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A PRELIMINARY VERSION OF THE SYLABUS, THE FINAL VERSION WILL BE AVAILABLE AT THE BEGINNING OF THE SEMESTER
ALSO NOTE THAT PART OF THE CLASS IS AN INTENSIVE WORKSHOP (3-8 NOVEMBER) WHEN WE WILL BE JOINED BY THE WASHINGTON GROUP; TOGETHER WE MEET DAILY (CCA 10-15) TO DISCUSS THE FILMS WE WILL WATCH DURING THE FESTIVAL. USUALLY WE SEE 1-2 FILMS A DAY. I WILL BE HAPPY TO WRITE YOU A NOTE ASKING TEACHERS IN YOUR OTHER CLASSES TO GRANT YOU A PERMISSION TO MISS ONE CLASS IN THE OTHER COURSES.
I will be happy to discuss issues raised in the class, your presentation as well as the final project with you indivudally. Please let me know in advance if/when you want to come to the office hours. Of couse, you can also just drop by, however, somebody else might be just speaking to me...)
Plagiarism in any form will be turned over to the ethical committee of the faculty; the procedure can result in expulsion from studies. In case of uncertainty how to quote or use primary material consult any citation manual. I will be also happy to help.
I. INTRODUCING QUEER FILM
I. Introducing Queer Film
What are GLBT film studies?
Is there a difference between GLBTI (Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Trans_, Intesex…) and Queer film/film criticism?
Should we care about good and positive representations of GLBTIAQ people?
Why film? And does it all matter, really?
'New Queer Cinema
Reading:
Michele Aaron, “New Queer Cinema: An Introduction,” New Queer Cinema. A Critical Reader. Rutgers UP. 2004 (pp. 3-14)
Anneke Smelik, „Gay and Lesbian Criticism,“ Film Studies: Critical Approaches. J. Hill, Ann Kaplan. eds. 2000, (pp. 133-145)
In-class screening:
Tongues Untied (sequences)
Fabulous! The Story of a Queer Cinema (Lisa Ades and Lesli Klainberg, US, 2006)
Recommended:
Rod Ferguson, “Race-ing Homonormativity: Citizenship, Sociology and Gay identity” in
Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology, Patrick E. Johnson, Mae Henderson, Eds.
Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2005; pp. 52-67
Keeling, Kara. „Joining the Lesbians: Cinematic Regimes of Black Lesbian Visibility,” in
Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology, Patrick E. Johnson, Mae Henderson, Eds.
Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2005; (pp. 213–227)
Queer Film Festivals and Global Cultural Economy
Reading:
Rich, B. Ruby. “The New Homosexual Film Festivals” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, 12.4. (2006): 620-625
Barrett, Michael, et al. "Queer film and video festival forum, take one: Curators Speak Out." GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 11.4 (2005): 579-603.
Straayer, Chris, and Thomas Waugh, eds. “Queer film and video festival forum, take two: Critics Speak Out." GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 12.4 (2006): 599-602
Straayer, Chris, and Thomas Waugh, eds. "Queer Film and Video Festival Forum: Artists Speak Out." GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 14.1 (2007): 120-2.
In-class screening: Mezipatra trailor(s)
Recommended: Sharon L. Snyder and David T. Mitchell, “’How do we get all these disabilities in here?': Disability Film Festivals and the Politics of Atypicality." Canadian Journal of Film Studies/Revue Canadienne d'Etudes Cinématographiques 17.1 (2008): 11-29.
Arjun Appadurai, Appadurai, Arjun. Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization. Minneapolis, Minn: University of Minnesota Press, 1996; chapter: “Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy”; pp. 27-47
II: Transnational contexts
Beyond the East/West …and South/North divides
Reading:
Věra Sokolová, „State approaches to homosexuality and non-heterosexual lives in Czechoslovakia during state socialism” in The Politics of Gender Culture under State Socialism: An Expropriated Voice, Hana Havelková and Libora Oates-Indruchová, London: Routledge. 2014; (pp. 82-108)
Kathi Wiedlack, “Red” vs. the Lesbians—Russian Characters, US-Nationalism and New Cold War Cultures in Orange Is The New Black” The Body in Feminist Theories and Methodologies, a special issue of Gender, Research, eds. Kateřina Kolářová and Jaroslava Marhánková Hasmanová, 17 (1): 29-40
The link to the journal issue (in Czech) http://www.genderonline.cz/cs/issue/current; (in English) http://www.genderonline.cz/en/issue/current;
The article: http://www.genderonline.cz/en/issue/40-volume-17-number-1-2016-embodiment-and-corporeality-in-feminist-theory-and-research/472 in Czech:
Zdeněk Sloboda, Czeslaw Walek, Romana Schlesinger, ”PRIDE: Promotion of homosexualism, manifestation of pride, or big party? The interview with Czeslaw Walek, a director of Prague Pride, and with Romana Schlesinger, a director of Bratislava Pride”, Gender, rovné příležitosti, výzkum 14 (2): 52-55; link http://www.genderonline.cz/uploads/020793204beeaa1600f6ecc68e4aaa7b7409c440_rozhovor-pride-walek-schlesinger.pdf
Recommended:
Robert Kupta, Joanna Mizielinska, De-Centring Western Sexualities: Central and Eastern European Perspectives. Burlington: Ashgate, 2011; chapters: “Introduction: Why Study Sexualities in Central and Eastern Europe? pp. 1-10; “‘Contemporary Peripheries’: Queer Studies, Circulations of Knowledge and East/West Divide”, pp. 11-27
Kuhar, Roman and Takacs, Judit. Eds., Beyond the Pink Curtain. Everyday Life of LGBT People in Eastern Europe, Ljubljana: Peace Institute, 2007.
Reddy, Gayatri, With Respect to Sex: Negotiating Hijra Identity in South India. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005; chapter “Crossing ‘lines’ of Subjectivity: Transnational Movements and Gay Identifications”, (pp. 211-222)
Gopinath, Gayatri. Impossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures. Durham: Duke University Press, 2005; chapter “Bollywood/Hollywood. Queer Cinematic Representation and the Perils of Translation” (pp. 93-130)
Briggs, Laura, Gladys McCormick, and J. T. Way. "Transnationalism: A Category of Analysis." American Quarterly 60.3 (2008): 625-48
Transgressions
Chase, Cheryl. "Hermaphrodites with Attitude: Mapping the Emergence of Intersex Political Activism." GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 4.2 (1998): 189-211.
Spurgas, Alyson K. “(Un)Queering Identity: The Biosocial Production of Intersex/DSD” in Critical Intersex, Morgan Holmes Ed., Burlington: Ashgate, 2009; pp. 97-123
In-class Screening:
Transparent (sequences)
XXY (Lucía Puenzo, Argentina, 2007)
Sexual/Racial politics of Neoliberalism
Puar, Jasbir, “The Golden Handcuffs of Gay Rights: How Pinkwashing Distorts both LGBTQI and Anti-Occupation Activism”; available from http://www.thefeministwire.com/2012/01/the-golden-handcuffs-of-gay-rights-how-pinkwashing-distorts-both-lgbtiq-and-anti-occupation-activism/
El-Tayeb, Fatima. “‘Gays Who Cannot Properly be Gay’: Queer Muslims in the Neoliberal European City.” European Journal of Women's Studies 19.1 (2012): 79-95.
Recommended:
“The Miseries of Marriage: What Do Queers Lose When We “Win?”, The ASA 2015 panel
Anne Mulhall, “The republic of Love: On the complex achievement of the same sex marriage referendum in Ireland; available at:https://bullybloggers.wordpress.com/2015/06/20/the-republic-of-love/
Rushbrook, Dereka. “Cities, Queer Space, and the Cosmopolitan Tourist.” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 8.1-2 (2002): 183-206.
David A B Murray. “Real Queer: ‘Authentic’ LGBT Refugee Claimants and Homonationalism in
Annotation
This course is one of the two parallel courses that will take place both on the Faculty of Humanities, UK and at the
University of Washington, D.C. The shared syllabus covers three main themes: film cultural studies, queer theory and transnational perspective. The course will be taught in English.
Queer film and Transnational Studies:
The interdisciplinary field that has come to be called "queer" studies over the past two decades has always concerned itself with questions of representation: how are, for instance, lesbians and gay men, or transgendered people, represented in film, in novels, in other forms of media? As the field has developed, these questions of representation have increasingly been linked to other, complex questions, involving political economy, globalization, and transnationalism: in what ways have lgbt people been incorporated into contemporary nation- states? What identities and desires threaten "the nation" as it is currently (and variously) materialized in our world?
How have identities such as "gay" and "lesbian" circulated globally? How have those recognizable minority identities come into contact and conflict with other ways of identifying around non-normative desires? Have those identities at times functioned imperialistically, especially as "gay tourism" has become a recognizable part of global capitalism? Conversely, what kinds of unexpected alliances have been shaped across borders as queer movements have globalized? How have these movements theorized race, gender, class, and ability; what connections have been made with other movements organized around identity?
This course considers how questions of queer representation intersect with questions of queer globalization(s).
The course has two parts -- an everyweek sessions in which we discuss the readings and watch films and an intensive week-long workshop (8-18.11.) for which the group of Robert McRuer's class will join us. At the workshop we will meet everyday for a class discussion (cca 11-3pm) and than later in the day we join the festival screenings and discussions.
Both parts of the class are taught in English, however we will make sure the class language-accessible and if needed help with translations.
The festival pass/ "Permanentka": The students will have to cover their own festival passes (540 Kc) for the whole festival.
If you have access requirements for the class, please contact me ahead of time, I will be very happy to make the class more accessible!