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.