Choose your first assignment from this list. Click on the title for reading lists and further materials. The first assignment due must be chosen from Batch One and the second assignment from Batch Two.

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• Compare the treatment of the relationships between the protagonists and their wives in Victim (Dearden 1961) and Brokeback Mountain (Ang 2005). Critically discuss the representational issues raised.
• Compare, contrast and critically discuss the treatment of the theme of homophobia in no more than three films.
• Compare Victim (Dearden 1961) and Philadelphia (Demme 1993) in terms of how they seek to influence audiences.
• Why did the film Cruising (Friedkin 1980) lead to protests?
• Illustrate and critically discuss the representation of gay people in television sitcoms or soap operas.
• How gay is camp?
• 'Do I look gay to you?' How do some people nowadays think that they can spot either a gay man or a lesbian in everyday life and what basis is there for such beliefs?
• Illustrate, compare and critically discuss the deployment of psychoanalytical 'explanations' of homosexuality in any two films.

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