Course Details
Course offered Winter 2025
HONORS 211 A: Queer and Trans* Film (A&H, W)
HONORS 211 A: Queer and Trans* Film (A&H, W)
SLN 15561 (View UW registration info »)
Email: derob@uw.edu
Credits: 5
Limit: 35 students
The year 2023 was the fourth consecutive year that saw more anti-trans legislation introduced in the U.S. than any previous year on record. In this particular historical moment, the study of queer and trans* cultural production is especially timely and pressing. This course teaches the analysis of queer and trans* film in the U.S., arguing that the analysis of cultural objects produced by a society gives us valuable information about how power operates in that society, and offers us tools through which to challenge abusive systems of power like homophobia and transphobia, and to imagine otherwise. Looking to a variety of films that engage topics which range from the criminalization of transness* and queerness, to queer paranormal romance, this course invites reflection on what queer and trans* film has to tell us about the world in which we live, and the world we want and need to forge in its place.