Gabriel Medrano: This week, while reading Brenda Cooper and Edward C. Pease’s article, “Framing Brokeback Mountain: How the Popular Press Controlled the ‘Gay Cowboy Movie’,” I found that… Read more “Week 14 Response”
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Week 13 Response
Gabriel Medrano: Of this week’s assigned reading, I found José Esteban Muñoz’s “Dead White: Notes on the Whiteness of the New Queer Cinema” to be the most thought-provoking. At… Read more “Week 13 Response”
Week 11 Response
Gabriel Medrano In “The View from the Shortbus, or All Those Fucking Movies,” Nick Davis brings up a very interesting question: is unsimulated, frank heterosexual sex in… Read more “Week 11 Response”
Week 12 Response
Gabriel Medrano: Reading Acevedo-Muñoz’s take on All About My Mother, “The Body and Spain: Pedro Almodovar’s All About My Mother,” I saw parallels and contradictions between this film’s depiction of trans-ness… Read more “Week 12 Response”
Week 10 Response
Of all the readings this week, I particularly liked Brenda Cooper’s “Boys Don’t cry and Female Masculinity: Reclaiming a Life & Dismantling the Politics of Normative Heterosexuality”. I… Read more “Week 10 Response”
Week 5 Response
Gabriel Medrano In my view, last week’s film, Johnny Guitar, was not only an example of camp, but also of passing. As Amy Robinson describes in “It Takes… Read more “Week 5 Response”
Week 4 Response
Gabriel Medrano This week, while reading on the fascinating exploration of the “She-man” as introduced by Chris Straayer, I believe I saw a correlation between that concept… Read more “Week 4 Response”
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