Course Info: CSI-0215
| Course | CSI-0215 Trans Film |
| Long Title | Trans Film: Theory, Histories, and Futures |
| Term | 2025F |
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| Meeting Info | Franklin Patterson Hall 102 on M,W from 1:00-2:20 |
| Faculty | Reuven Goldberg |
| Capacity | 25 |
| Available | 0 |
| Waitlist | 0 |
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| Additional Info | Students should expect to spend 6-8 hours weekly on work and preparation outside of class time Library Materials: A Kid Like Jake Queens at Heart Boy Meets Girl Shinjuku Boys Tangerine Orlando, My Political Biography Sleepaway Camp All About My Mother Some Like It Hot Women in Revolt In a Year with 13 Moons Glen or Glenda? Pink Flamingos Orlando (Hampshire has DVD - this can be made available via Hampflix) By Hook or By Crook (Hampshire has DVD - this can be made available on Hampflix) Silence of the Lambs (VHS at Hampshire - this can be made available on Hampflix Books: Title:Corpses, Fools, and Monsters: The History and Future of Transness in Cinema Author:Caden Mark Gardner & Willow Catelyn Maclay ISBN:1914420586 Cost: |
| Description | This course takes, as its critical object, trans representation
in film. We will consider how visibility functions and operates
in trans films, from The Silence of the Lambs (which shaped trans
representation in the mainstream media for decades), to early
trans films like Behind Every Good Man (which served as
pseudo-documentaries for a curious cis public, exposing the lives
of Black and Brown trans people), to contemporary trans film
(geared to both arthouse and mainstream audiences). We will
discuss the various tropes that have congealed into popularly
circulating stereotypes about trans people and read theoretical
texts that engage the material and technical aspects of film to
understand the various complicated lives of these tropes.
Together we will ask: what are the stakes of trans visual
representation? How do these tropes evolve over time? In a
largely white archive how is whiteness as power figured? When
race, class, citizenship, or HIV status are thematized, what
forms do these representations take? Keywords:Trans, film, archives, moving image, theory |