Queer/Women in the Eastern and Central European Cinema, and Beyond
(Culture and Politics of LGBTQ+)
This is a site of the course on queer history and LGBT politics in Eastern and Central Europe, focusing on the representation of lesbians in the selected films of the last 30 years (from 1980s to the present)
Syllabus:
Block 1: Introduction: Vulnerability and Visibility
Block 2: Nationhood/Revolutions and Queer Women
Block 3: Gender Wars and Women, Ideology, Religion and Politics
Block 4: Why Feminism Failed or Has It? Why Feminism Failed, or Has it?
Block 5: Feminism in Poland / East-European Case
Block 6: In Search for Cinematic Lesbian History
OVERVIEW:Topics, subjects and issues discussed:
1. Introduction lecture: “Love does not exclude”. Lectures on:
2. Block 1: LGBT/National Stories and Interests/Revolution. About the First Lesbian Film Under Communism (Hungary) Lecture:
3. Block 2: LGBT/System. Homoeroticism as mirror of systemic abuse. (Poland) Lecture
4. Block 3: Transformation/History and Lesbians (Croatia/Serbia and Czech Republic)
5. Mapping heteronormativity. Documentary: Coming Out: Polish Style by Slawomir Grünberg & Katka Reszke (2012)
6. Looking for cinematic lesbian history The lectures looks into various films that started the representation of lesbianism in cinema, also the possibility of making a new lesbian history is discussed in presentation: "Making/Inventing a Lesbian Icon. Possible Way to Increase Visibility and Face Heteronormativity - To Show the Connections Throughout Times and Cultures" |
KEY WORDS:
Lesbians in the Central and Eastern Europe; History of Sexuality; LGBTQ histories; Easteuropean herstories; The Epistemology of the Closet; Queer films; Queer women; Queer and ideology. |