Syllabus
Kateřina Kolářová
KH/office hours: THU 14:30-15:30
(or as individually arranged) katerina.kolarova@fhs.cuni.cz
ALSO NOTE THAT PART OF THE CLASS IS AN INTENSIVE WORKSHOP (8-15 NOVEMBER) WHEN WE WILL BE JOINED BY THE GROUP FROM GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, D.C.; TOGETHER WE MEET DAILY (CCA 11am-4pm for the class, following by the film seeing) 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.
QUEER FILM
I. INTRODUCING QUEER FILM 3.10. Week 1: New Queer Cinema
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?
Reading:
Michele Aaron, “New Queer Cinema: An Introduction,” New Queer Cinema. A Critical Reader. Rutgers UP. 2004 (pp. 3-14)
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” inBlack 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,” inBlack Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology, Patrick E. Johnson, Mae Henderson, Eds. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2005; (pp. 213–227) 10.10. Week 2: Queer Film Festivals and Global Cultural Economy
Reading:
Jules Rosskam, „Making Trans Cinema: A Roundtable Discussion with Felix Endara, Reina Gossett, Chase Joynt, Jess Mac and Madsen Minax“. Somatechnics, 8.1 (2018): 14–26
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 Cinématographiques17.1 (2008): 11-29.
In-class screening: Mezipatratrailor(s)
Yes, We Fuck! (2015, Antonio Centeno, Raúl de la Morena) https://vimeo.com/123177395
Recommended:
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 Studies11.4 (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 Studies12.4 (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 Studies14.1 (2007): 120-2.
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 17.10. Week 3: Beyond the East/West …and South/North divides
Reading:
Zita Farkas, „The Double Bind of Visibility: Mainstreaming Lesbianism in Love Sick“ in Fejes, Narcisz, and Andrea P. Balogh.Eds. Queer Visibility in Post-Socialist Cultures. Intellect, Chicago University Press. 2013, 175-196
Rafael de la Dehesa, “Third-World Gays” and Western Baggage in the Early Construction of an International Gay and Lesbian Liberation Movement http://sfonline.barnard.edu/thinking-queer-activism-transnationally/
Recommended: 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, výzkum14 (2): 52-55; link http://www.genderonline.cz/uploads/020793204beeaa1600f6ecc68e4aaa7b7409c440_rozhovor-pride-walek-schlesinger.pdf
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
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 http://www.genderonline.cz/en/issue/40-volume-17-number-1-2016-embodiment-and-corporeality-in-feminist-theory-and-research/472
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 Quarterly60.3 (2008): 625-48 24.10. Week 4 Transgressions and knowledge circulation
Chase, Cheryl. "Hermaphrodites with Attitude: Mapping the Emergence of Intersex Political Activism." GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies4.2 (1998): 189-211.
Holmes, Morgan. „The Intersex Enchiridion: Naming and Knowledge.“ Somatechnics 1.2 (2011): 388–411
Recommended:
Spurgas, Alyson K. “(Un)Queering Identity: The Biosocial Production of Intersex/DSD” in Critical Intersex, Morgan Holmes Ed., Burlington: Ashgate, 2009; pp. 97-123 31.10. Week 5 Sexual/Racial politics of Exceptionalism
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/
Moussawi, Ghassan. „Queer exceptionalism and exclusion: Cosmopolitanism and inequalities in “gay-friendly” Beirut“.The Sociological Review, 66. 1.(2017):174–190.
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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, transgendered people, intersex-, or asexual people and other queer identities 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 also 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 (8-15.11.) 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. You will be provided with a precise schedule once the festival program is announced. For reference, you can see the schedule from last year, available in the course materials.
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 (cca 550 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!