Representing Sexuality and Gender on Screen

Representing Sexuality and Gender On Screen explores the relationship between censorship and self-expression, with a particular focus on queer and feminist readings of Hollywood cinema and the history of the adult film and video industry in the United States. Students will learn queer and feminist reading strategies, performative strategies of resistance, and artistic movements including the New Queer Cinema within the histories of regulation that shaped them, from the Motion Picture Production Code, to the ratings system, to SESTA-FOSTA.