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FILM3005: Queer Cinema
2024 unit information
This unit introduces students to queer cinema as a now recognisable global and world-making phenomenon produced within and beyond institutions of mass media. It focuses on films, videos and moving image media produced by LGBTQIA+-identified people, whether as individuals, groups, collectives or in the context of activist movements. Drawing on feminist, queer and trans theories, the unit explores representations of sex, bodies, identities, communities and cultures across mainstream, independent and avant-garde traditions.
Unit details and rules
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| Study level | Undergraduate |
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| Academic unit | Film Studies |
| Credit points | 6 |
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Prerequisites:
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12 credits points at 2000 level in Film Studies or 12 credit points at 2000 level in Gender Studies or 12 credit points at 2000 level in Cultural Studies or ENGL2627 Screening Sexuality |
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Corequisites:
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None |
| Prohibitions:
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None |
| Assumed knowledge:
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None |
At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. Demonstrate an understanding of contemporary queer and trans cinemas, including the intellectual, historical, and cultural processes that shape their production, aesthetics, distributions and receptions.
- LO2. Develop a self-reflexive understanding of scholarly, practitioner and activist contributions to, reflections on and interventions in cultural processes of representation, reception, and other forms of social impact and change.
- LO3. Enhance individual capacity as a cultural agent to build and sustain collegial relationships in order to engage in, work effectively on, contribute to and lead collective projects.
- LO4. Develop the personal dispositions and skills to generate, research, design and propose projects that offer perceptive, inventive and challenging insights on the current state and history of queer and trans cinemas.
- LO5. Develop a high standard of written communication skills oriented to different scholarly or specialist audiences as well as general audiences interested in film and video.
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