Film and Media Studies 312 - Seminar: Approaching Queer Media

Sem: Approaching Queer Media

Spring
2026
01
4.00
Kiki Loveday

TH 9:25 AM - 12:05 PM

Smith College
FMS-312-01-202603
kloveday@smith.edu
Approaching Queer Media considers the recent proliferation of LGBTQ+ representations in popular culture from historical, technological, commercial, social and legal perspectives. Approaching queer media as a historically specific yet shifting and-relational object of study, the course uses a critical framework of trajectories to consider disparate movements of queer media across historical periods, national boundaries, physical spaces and ideological assumptions, asking: What counts as queer? Is there a queer canon? A queer gaze? How is queer media history done? This course asks students to critically engage with a wide variety of moving images and intertexts from pre-code silent cinema to TikTok. Prerequisite: FMS 150. Enrollment limited to 12. Restrictions: Juniors and seniors only. Instructor permission required. (E)

[CE] JR/SR only; Prereq: FMS 150

Multiple required components--lab and/or discussion section. To register, submit requests for all components simultaneously.

Must take Laboratory, Seminar

Permission is required for interchange registration during the add/drop period only.
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