Week 4 - Queer Theory

• Paris is Burning (Jennie Livingston, 1991)
• Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Howard Hawks, 1953)
• Beau travail (Good Work; Claire Denis, 1999)

Key reading

• Judith Butler, ‘Imitation and Gender Insubordination’, in Inside/Out: Lesbian Theories, Gay Theories, ed. by Diana Fuss (London; New York: Routledge, 1991), pp. 13–31 (reprinted in The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader, ed. by Henry Abelove, Michèle Aina Barale and David M. Halperin (New York; London: Routledge, 1993), pp. 307–20)
• Daniel T. Contreras, ‘New Queer Cinema: Spectacle, Race, Utopia’, in Michele Aaron, ed. New Queer Cinema: A Critical Reader (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2004), pp. 119–27
• Alexander Doty, ‘Queer Theory,’ in John Hill and Pamela Church Gibson, eds. The Oxford Guide to Film Studies (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998), pp. 148–53

Further reading

• Judith Butler, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (New York: Routledge, 1990)
• 'Gender is Burning: Questions of Appropriation and Subversion’, Bodies that Matter: On the Discursive Limits of ‘Sex’ (London: Routledge, 1993), pp. 121–40
• Ann Cvetkovich, ‘The Powers of Seeing and Being Seen: Truth or Dare and Paris is Burning’, in Film Theory goes to the Movies, ed. by Jim Collins, Hilary Radner and Ava Preacher Collins (New York: Routledge, 1993), pp. 155–69
• Alexander Doty, Flaming Classics: Queering the Film Canon (London; New York: Routledge, 2000)
• Richard Dyer, Now You See It: Studies on Lesbian and Gay Film (London: Routledge, 1990)
• Caroline Evans and Lorraine Gamman, ‘The Gaze Revisited or Revisiting Queer Viewing’, in A Queer Romance: Lesbians, Gay Men and Popular Culture, ed. by P. Burston and C. Richardson (New York and London: Routledge, 1995), pp. 13–56
• Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality (New York: Pantheon, 1978)
• bell hooks, ‘is paris burning?’, Reel to Real: Race, Sex and Class at the Movies (London: Routledge, 1996), pp. 215–26
• How Do I Look? Queer Film and Video, ed. by Bad Object-Choices Collective (Seattle: Bay Press, 1991)
• Inside/Out: Lesbian Theories, Gay Theories, ed. by Diana Fuss (London; New York: Routledge, 1991)
• Teresa de Lauretis, The Practice of Love: Lesbian Sexuality and Perverse Desire (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1994)
• Judith Mayne, Cinema and Spectatorship (London; New York: Routledge, 1993)
• Judith Mayne, Directed by Dorothy Arzner (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995)
• Out Takes: Essays on Queer Theory and Film, ed. by Ellis Hanson (Durham, NC; London: Duke University Press, 1999)
• Queer Cinema: The Film Reader, ed. by Harry Benshoff and Sean Griffin (London; Routledge, 2004)
• Queer Theory, ed. by Iain Morland and Annabelle Willox (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004)
• Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, ‘Epistemology of the Closet’, in The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader, ed. by Henry Abelove, Michèle Aina Barale and David M. Halperin (New York; London: Routledge, 1993), pp. 45–61
• Anneke Smelik, ‘Gay and Lesbian Criticism’, in The Oxford Guide to Film Studies, ed. by John Hill and Pamela Church Gibson (Oxford: O.U.P., 1998), pp. 135–47
• Jackie Stacey, Star Gazing: Hollywood Cinema and Female Spectatorship (London; New York: Routledge, 1994)
• Chris Straayer, Deviant Eyes, Deviant Bodies: Sexual Re-orientations in Film and Video (New York: Columbia University Press, 1996)