MY QUEER THEATER/FILM CLASS IS HELLA AWESOME!!!
*But first, before I present why my class is awesome, can anyone please help me customize my journal? I'm so rusty on CSS that it's embarrassing!*
MIDTERM EXAM, PART 2
TAKE HOME COMPONENT
Length 7-10 pages, approximate; MLA style
Complete ONE of the assignments listed here:
[Choice A omitted due to the fact that I'm obviously writing option B.]
B
Choose one of your favorite films of or a film that you think is particularly appropriate for examination through a queer lens. View your chosen film, then “queer” it, i.e., cite classroom readings and discussions, and gather outside research to formulate a queer reading of your film. In your paper, weave in a discussion of what you consider to be the more appropriate scholarly approach for looking at film classics through a queer lens: Number 1 or Number 2, below.
Regarding an examination of the relationship of queerness to mainstream texts and films, Doty offers two routes that scholars can take:
1. Scholars can co-optively and subversively “”queer” certain films in established straight canons in order to place them in their own subcultural, queer canons that challenge straight canons, or
2. Scholars can articulate queer readings of canonical classics in order to suggest that these films are not the exclusive property of straight culture-that these films are as queer as they are straight, and that there is no need for queer canons that are marked as alternative or subcultural because queerness can be everywhere.
A word on style for this paper: Doty discusses the phenomenon of the scholar-fan (pp. 11-13) and the binary distinction between fans and academics and fans:
1. Academics produce writing that focuses on a close textural reading of the film and related scholarly writing, while avoiding the use of the first person and any other infusion of the author into the writing, whereas
2. Scholar-fans produce writing that reveals the investments that the author has in the film that produced certain readings and that led the author to write about a particular film in the first place.
It's like everything I've done in fandom over the last few years. It's academic-approved slash-goggles!!!!!
Just for lulz, anyone want to offer any suggestions (though I got plenty to go on already)!
Edit: And what did I finally settle of writing about? This movie:
MIDTERM EXAM, PART 2
TAKE HOME COMPONENT
Length 7-10 pages, approximate; MLA style
Complete ONE of the assignments listed here:
[Choice A omitted due to the fact that I'm obviously writing option B.]
B
Choose one of your favorite films of or a film that you think is particularly appropriate for examination through a queer lens. View your chosen film, then “queer” it, i.e., cite classroom readings and discussions, and gather outside research to formulate a queer reading of your film. In your paper, weave in a discussion of what you consider to be the more appropriate scholarly approach for looking at film classics through a queer lens: Number 1 or Number 2, below.
Regarding an examination of the relationship of queerness to mainstream texts and films, Doty offers two routes that scholars can take:
1. Scholars can co-optively and subversively “”queer” certain films in established straight canons in order to place them in their own subcultural, queer canons that challenge straight canons, or
2. Scholars can articulate queer readings of canonical classics in order to suggest that these films are not the exclusive property of straight culture-that these films are as queer as they are straight, and that there is no need for queer canons that are marked as alternative or subcultural because queerness can be everywhere.
A word on style for this paper: Doty discusses the phenomenon of the scholar-fan (pp. 11-13) and the binary distinction between fans and academics and fans:
1. Academics produce writing that focuses on a close textural reading of the film and related scholarly writing, while avoiding the use of the first person and any other infusion of the author into the writing, whereas
2. Scholar-fans produce writing that reveals the investments that the author has in the film that produced certain readings and that led the author to write about a particular film in the first place.
It's like everything I've done in fandom over the last few years. It's academic-approved slash-goggles!!!!!
Just for lulz, anyone want to offer any suggestions (though I got plenty to go on already)!
Edit: And what did I finally settle of writing about? This movie: