Queer TV

Catalog description

This upper-level seminar considers the long evolution of queer and trans TV from its role in the origins of television as a medium through its contemporary manifestations. The premises of the course?subject to complication and contestation?include the notions that we stall as thinkers and viewers when we dwell both in the illogic of progress narratives and in the tepid debate about ?good? versus ?bad? televised representations of LGBTQ+ lives and experiences; that close audiovisual analysis lies at the heart of a generative study of television that must also attend closely to economic, industrial, and sociocultural schemes; and that any discourse about queerness that does not move intersectionally, with attention to race, class, ability, gender, and more, is an imprecise and inadequate one. (PMA-HTC)