{"id":1787,"date":"2013-12-18T19:03:56","date_gmt":"2013-12-18T19:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/katherine-stephenson\/?page_id=1787"},"modified":"2015-03-09T02:52:56","modified_gmt":"2015-03-09T02:52:56","slug":"week-11","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/katherine-stephenson\/courses\/queer-theory\/weekly-work\/week-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 11: Queering Popular Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"

Queering popular culture involves a range of reading\/writing practices that are political insofar as they seek to expose and problematise the means by which sexuality is textually constituted in relation to dominant notions of gender. And Queer Theory is cultural insofar as it concerns itself with the ways in which cultural texts–books, films, television programs, magazines, political manifestos, scientific theories, and so on–(in)form our understandings and experiences of sexuality and subjectivity. Queering popular culture, then, involves critically engaging with the cultural artefacts in order to explore the ways in which meaning and identity is (inter)textually (re)produced. —Nikki Sullivan, A Critical Introduction to Queer Theory<\/em> (189-90)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Required Readings<\/h3>\n

Sullivan, Ch. 11 \u201cQueering Popular Culture\u201d (189-206)<\/p>\n

Freya Johnson article: http:\/\/bad.eserver.org\/issues\/1995\/23\/johnson.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Barbie Liberation Organization http:\/\/www.rtmark.com\/blo.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Erica Rand’s Barbie’s Queer Accessories<\/em> (scroll down to see 5 excerpted pages): http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=wyeeHB4F6ksC&pg=PA172&source=gbs_selected_pages&cad=3#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n

Hothead Paisan Wikipedia entry http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hothead_Paisan<\/a><\/p>\n

Anne Thalheimer review of <\/b>The Complete Hothead Paisan: Homicidal Lesbian Terrorist<\/i> http:\/\/www.popmatters.com\/review\/hothead-paison\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Mary Street Hothead Paisan page http:\/\/www.marystreet.com\/HH\/page3.html<\/a> (with 3 sample pages from the comic book)<\/p>\n

Graduate Readings [on Moodle2<\/a>]:<\/p>\n

Warner, \u201cQueer and Then? The End of Queer Theory?\u201d<\/p>\n

Sedgwick, Tendencies<\/em>, Forward: \u201cT Times\u201d (xi-xvi), \u201cQueer and Now\u201d (1-20)<\/p>\n

Seidman, \u201cIdentity and Politics in a ‘Postmodern’ Gay Culture: Some Historical and Conceptual Notes\u201d (105-142), in Fear of a Queer Planet<\/em><\/p>\n

Halberstam, Female Masculinity<\/em>, Preface (xi-xiv), Ch. 1 \u201cAn Introduction to Female Masculinity\u201d (1-43)<\/p>\n

Additional Resources<\/h3>\n

Film: Batman Forever<\/a> (Joel Schumacher 1995); \u201cBatman Forever: HBO First Look\u201d http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1MiAszO_ni0&feature=related<\/a>; Trailer: http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=r8D0ckow0ck&feature=related<\/a>;<\/p>\n

Due This Week<\/h3>\n
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  1. Ten key Terms or concepts in readings<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. Two LGBTQIA representations<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. Two LGBTQIA issues<\/a><\/li>\n
  4. Presentation of representations and issues<\/a><\/li>\n
  5. Queer Theory Week 11 Questions on Readings<\/a><\/li>\n
  6. Group 3 Presentation:\u00a0Robin Rogers, Andrew Myatt, Christina Petzke, Robert Rockwell<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Queering popular culture involves a range of reading\/writing practices that are political insofar as they seek to expose and problematise the means by which sexuality is textually constituted in relation to dominant notions of gender. And Queer Theory is cultural insofar as it concerns itself with the ways in which cultural texts–books, films, television programs, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1716,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1787","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P2WAwc-sP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/katherine-stephenson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/katherine-stephenson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/katherine-stephenson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/katherine-stephenson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/katherine-stephenson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1787"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/katherine-stephenson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2239,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/katherine-stephenson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1787\/revisions\/2239"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/katherine-stephenson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/katherine-stephenson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}