October 9, 2024
The following course may be of interest to Film graduate students:
Damon Young is teaching a French course about triangulation, a major trope of 20th century critical theory. The seminar will explore, then, a queer theory of triangulation, passing through psychoanalysis, French philosophy, and media theory. The seminar will analyze creative texts (in this case, films). We will watch and discuss films that stage dramas of triangulation — such as Jules et Jim, Plein Soleil, Diabolique, Beau Travail, La Noire de… and works of melodrama by Douglas Sirk, Todd Haynes, Fassbinder, and others — in order to examine how triangulation structures narratives of desire, and how these films generate their own, queer relational theories.
This seminar is open to Film and Media PhD and Film and Media DE students.