Read:
- Bonnie Dow, ‘Ellen, Television, and the Politics of Gay and Lesbian Visibility’ Critical
Studies in Media Communication 18 (2001) 2, 123-140. - Rebecca Beirne, ‘Representing Lesbians in Film and Television’ The Routledge
Companion to Media, Sex and Sexuality. Ed. Clarissa Smith and Feona Attwood with
Brian McNair. London and New York: Routledge, 2018. 38-48. - Katerina Symes, ‘Orange is the New Black: The Popularization of Lesbian Sexuality and
Heterosexual Modes of Viewing’ Feminist Media Studies 17 (2017) 1, 29-41.
Answer the following questions:500 words
- Bonnie Dow’s analyses critique of the way in which lesbian lives are represented
on television implies a right/desiravle way of representing these lives. How
should they be represented according to Dow? - Which assumption about lesbians and sex shapes representations of lesbian
sexuality in film anf TV according to Rebecca Beirne. What is the effect of this
assumption on these representations? - On what reinterpretation of theories of interpellation does Katerina Symes
argument that Orange is the New Black challenges heteronormativity rest?
Read:
- Ara Osterweil, ‘Ang Lee’s Lonesome Cowboys’ Film Quarterly 60 (2007) 3, 38-42.
- Daniel Mendelsohn, ‘An Affair to Remember’ The New York Review of Books 53 (2006) 3
[ 5 pp].
D.A. Miller, ‘On the Universality of Brokeback Mountain’ Film Quarterly 60 (2007) 3, 50-
60. - Michael Cobb, ‘God Hates Cowboys (Kind Of)’ GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay
Studies, 13 (2006) 1, 102-104.
- Which stereotypical element limits Brokeback Mountain’s ability to be truly
innovative according to Ara Osterweil? Why is this the case? - Which stereotypical element in Brokeback Mountain’s representation of
homosexuality plays into the hands of Christian critics of homosexuality
according to Michael Cobb Why is this the case? - Both D.A. Miller and Daniel Mendelsohn write critically about the reception of
Brokeback Mountain as a universal rather than a gay drama. Point out an
important difference between their respective critical views.
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