Lecture Topics

This is a provisional list only and the contents and order of sessions may change without notice.

Screening Running Time Lecture-Workshop Reading Powerpoint Slides
1 Friday 27th September [Arts Centre Cinema]
The Celluloid Closet (Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman 1995)
102 mins Tuesday 1st October
Introduction
2 Friday 4th October [Arts Centre Cinema]
Victim (Basil Dearden 1961) [black and white]
100 mins Tuesday 8th October
Victim
3 Friday 11th October [Hugh Owen D54]
Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee 2005)
134 mins Tuesday 15th October
Homophobia
4 Friday 18th October [Arts Centre Cinema]
Cruising (William Friedkin 1980)
106 mins Tuesday 22nd October
Cruising
5 Friday 25th October [Hugh Owen D54]
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (Stephan Elliott 1994)
104 mins Tuesday 29th October
Camp
6 Friday 1st November [Arts Centre Cinema]
Philadelphia (Jonathan Demme 1993)
125 mins Tuesday 5th November
Philadelphia
Friday 8th November [Hugh Owen D54]
The Matthew Shepherd Story (Roger Spottiswoode 2002) or A Love to Hide (Christian Faure 2005)
(Assignment Week: w/b 11th November)
100 mins [No associated lecture: Assignment Week follows]
7 [No prior screening - follows Assignment Week] Tuesday 19th November
The Semiotics of Gender
8 Friday 22nd November [Arts Centre Cinema]
Un Chant d'Amour (Jean Genet 1950) [silent, black and white]
26 mins Tuesday 26th November
Homoeroticism
Anders als die Andern ('Different from the Others'; Richard Oswald 1919) [silent, black and white; reconstructed version] 50 mins
Caught Looking (Constantine Giannaris 1991) 35 mins
9 Friday 29th November [Arts Centre Cinema]
Beautiful Thing (Hettie MacDonald 1996)
90 mins Tuesday 3rd December
Coming Out
10 Friday 6th December [Arts Centre Cinema]
Milk (Gus van Sant 2008) or The Birdcage (Mike Nichols 1996) or Gods and Monsters (Bill Condon)
119 mins or 105 mins Tuesday 10th December
Gay Representation in Ads [not related to prior screening!]

PowerPoint Slides
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