ENG 360 - Gay and Lesbian Theatre & Film

Course unit(s): 1
Meets GAR: Meets general academic requirements HU and DE.
This course explores a “gay and lesbian” canon of plays and films that both shaped and mirrored the evolution of a specific (historical) “gay and lesbian” subjectivity over the course of the twentieth century. We will also examine how the very forms of twentieth century theatre and film the subtexts of modern drama, the psychoanalytic mirrors of the silver screen were themselves seen as symbolic of gay and lesbian subjectivity and experience. Satisfies Departmental “Social Justice” and “Drama/Transmedia” requirements.