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Institut für Anglistik Institut für Anglistik

Mag. Dr. Elahe Haschemi Yekani, MA Mag. Dr. Elahe Haschemi Yekani, MA

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British and/or Postcolonial Literature: The "New Queer Cinema" in Britain und Canada

PS 2

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Englisch

The aim of the seminar is to familiarise students with the methodological tools of film analysis and provide theoretical insights into film theory, for example, gaze theories. Students will learn to interrogate the cultural construction of gender and sexuality and will be introduced to the theoretical framework of Queer Theory as well as gain insights into the cultural politics of the 1990s in Britain and Canada.

The “New Queer Cinema” as film critic Ruby Rich called it in 1992, is now celebrating its twentieth birthday. This course revisits a number of films that have been influential in shaping this “new queer” aesthetics. While these films do not follow one specific aesthetic or political agenda, they challenged and changed the representation of gender and sexuality lastingly. No longer a humanist call for the inclusion of gay, lesbian and transgender people into mainstream society, these films interrogate the very binary construction of gender and sexuality. In addition to the independent US-American cinema, it was mainly the British and Canadian tradition of (publically funded) art house cinema which contributed to these challenges of heteronormative representation on the big screen. In this course, we will discuss and analyse films by British and Canadian directors Stephen Frears (My Beautiful Laundrette), Derek Jarman (Edward II), Isaac Julien (Young Soul Rebels), Sally Potter (Orlando), Neil Jordan (The Crying Game), John Greyson (Zero Patience), Atom Egoyan (Exotica) and Patricia Rozema (When Night is Falling) and relate them to the cultural climate of homophobia and racism as well as the so-called AIDS crisis of the time.

lecture, group discussions, presentations

written paper (ca. 3500 words)

Course material (texts and films) will be made available on OLAT. It is strongly recommended to get acquainted with as many films as possible before the new semester starts.

Anmeldevoraussetzung/en: Bachelorstudium: positive Beurteilung der Pflichtmodule 3 und 16 Entspricht im Diplomstudium (343): PS 2 English Literature Entspricht im Lehramtsstudium (344): PS 2 English Literature
Beginn: 05. März 2013