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

  1. 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?
  2. 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?
  3. 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.
  1. Which stereotypical element limits Brokeback Mountain’s ability to be truly
    innovative according to Ara Osterweil? Why is this the case?
  2. 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?
  3. 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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