Courses of Study 2015-2016 
    
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Courses of Study 2015-2016 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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ASIAN 3331 - [Gender and Sexuality in Southeast Asian Cinema]

(crosslisted) FGSS 3331 LGBT 3331 , PMA 3431 , RELST 3331  
(GB) (LA-AS)      
Fall. Next offered 2016-2017. 4 credits.

Co-meets with ASIAN 6631 /FGSS 6331 /LGBT 6331 .

A. Fuhrmann.

Examines the new cinemas of Southeast Asia and their engagement with contemporary discourses of gender and sexuality. It pays special attention to the ways in which sexuality and gendered embodiment are at present linked to citizenship and other forms of belonging and to how the films draw on Buddhist and Islamic traditions of representation and belief. Focusing on globally circulating Southeast Asian films of the past 15 years, the course draws on current writings from feminism, Buddhist studies, affect theory, queer studies, postcolonial theory, and film studies to ask what new understandings of subjectivity might emerge from these cinemas and their political contexts. Films will be drawn from both mainstream and independent cinema and will include the work of directors such as Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Danny and Oxide Pang, Yau Ching, Thunska Pansittivorakul, Garin Nugroho, and Jean-Jacques Annaud. (SC)



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