$250 for 8 week course. $35 per class drop in fee
COMING IN MARCH 2022!
How are sexual identities represented in television? In what ways have feminism and queer theory shaped popular culture and how we think about sexualities? What is sex positivity and how can we use it as a critical tool for interrogating representations of sexualities?
Wednesday nights at 8:00 pm (EST): March 2 to April 20. This hybrid course will take place in my living room in downtown Montreal and online. Due to COVID restrictions, it might be only online.
This course will examine how sex and sexualities are represented in 21stcentury television, including heterosexual, gay, lesbian, asexual, queer, trans, polyamorous, monogamous, pansexual, and bisexual subjectivities. Following the tradition of feminist cultural studies, we will consider a variety of television series as sites of struggle in which multiple and often-contradictory messages and mythsabout sexuality circulate. Through an analysis of documentaries, animation, reality TV, science fiction, fantasy, soap operas, comedies, and television dramas, we will discuss how popular culture depicts sexualities and how representations of sexualities intersect with gender, race, class, and culture.
Optional readings are provided and there are no assignments. I bake delicious treats for every class.
Your only homework is watching two TV episodes prior to each class!
TOPICS:
Week 1: History of Sexuality on TV
Week 2: Heterosexual Representations with Sex and the City & This is Us
Week 3: Lesbian Representations with The L Word: Generation Q & Vida
Week 4: Gay Male Representations with Please Like Me & Sense 8
Week 5: Bisexual, Pansexual & Asexual Representations with Lost Girl & Bojack Horseman
Week 6: Polyamory and Monogamy with She’s Gotta Have It & Trigonometry
Week 7: BDSM & Kink with Bonding & Mercy Mistress
Week 8: Sex Therapy with Sex, Love & Goop and In Treatment
Each class is 2 hours, once a week.
$250 for 8 week course. $35 per class drop in fee
Email kristen@kh1art.ca for a course syllabus, inquire about the next seminar dates and to reserve a spot for the entire seminar or a weekly topic.
Dr. Kristen Hutchinson is an art historian, visual artist, curator, and art consultant. She received her PhD in the History of Art from University College London in 2007. Kristen has taught art history, feminism, and popular culture courses at universities and colleges in Canada, the US, and the UK. She is currently writing a non-fiction book about supernatural creatures in contemporary art, film and television.
This seminar will examine prevalent themes in contemporary visual culture through an analysis of contemporary art and television drama series produced during the last decade.
This seminar will focus upon the ways in which contemporary artists and American, Canadian, and British television drama series explore and interrogate contemporary philosophical, ethical, aesthetic, and political debates. We will look at contemporary artists from around the globe who work in a variety of media, including sculpture, installation, video art, performance art, photography, painting, and drawing.
Optional readings are provided and there are no assignments. I bake delicious treats for every class.
Your only homework is watching two TV pilot episodes prior to each class!
TOPICS:
Week 1: Narrative & Language with Deadwood & The Wire
Week 2: Identity, Gender & Sexuality with Vida & Grace and Frankie
Week 3: Morality & Medicine with House & Nurse Jackie
Week 4: Place with Lost & The 100
Week 5: Surveillance with Person of Interest & Mr. Robot
Week 5: The Fantastical with The Magicians & Sense 8
200 for 6 week course. $35 per class drop in fee.
Full seminar fee due via Interac e-transfer or Paypal. Cheques & cash are also accepted on the first day of class. Drop in fees are due during the weekly classes.
Email kristen@kh1art.ca for a course syllabus and to reserve a spot for the entire seminar or a weekly topic.
Dr. Kristen Hutchinson is an art historian, visual artist, curator, and art consultant. She received her PhD in the History of Art from University College London in 2007. Kristen has taught art history courses at universities and colleges in Canada, the US, and the UK. She is currently writing a non-fiction book about supernatural creatures in contemporary art, film and television.
Affordable online seminar about feminism and television from 2000 to the present. This course will examine how gender, sexuality, ability, race, ethnicity, class, and status are represented in 21stcentury television shows.
Through an analysis of drama, comedy, reality TV, animation, horror and fantasy, we will discuss the similarities and differences of how tropes about gender, sexuality, ability, race, ethnicity, class, and status are constructed and represented across various genres. We will focus on TV series with female, women identified, non-binary, and trans protagonists.
Thursday evenings from 7:00 to 9:00 pm in my Montreal living room.
Optional readings are provided and there are no assignments. I bake delicious treats for every class.
Your only homework is watching two TV episodes prior to each class!
TOPICS:
Week 1: Drama with Grey’s Anatomy & Unbelievable
Week 2: Comedy with Broad City & Fleabag
Week 3: Reality TV with Queer Eye & Are You the One?
Week 4: Animation with Bertie and Tuca & Steven Universe
Week 5: Horror with The Exorcist & Channel Zero: Dream Door
Week 5: Fantasy with The Handmaid’s Tale & Chilling Adventures of Sabrina
200 for 6 week course. $35 per class drop in fee.
Full seminar fee due via Interac e-transfer or Paypal. Cheques & cash are also accepted on the first day of class. Drop in fees are due during the weekly classes.
Email kristen@kh1art.ca for a course syllabus and to reserve a spot for the entire seminar or a weekly topic.
Dr. Kristen Hutchinson is an art historian, visual artist, curator, and art consultant. She received her PhD in the History of Art from University College London in 2007. Kristen has taught art history courses at universities and colleges in Canada, the US, and the UK. She is currently writing a non-fiction book about supernatural creatures in contemporary art, film and television.
How have feminisms both critiqued and transformed mainstream popular culture? What is feminist popular culture? What could it be?
This seminar will examine representations of women and gender identities in popular culture through the lens of feminism. We will look at how feminists have both critiqued and transformed mainstream popular culture.
Optional readings are provided and there are no assignments. I bake delicious treats for every class.
Your only homework is watching a film or TV episode prior to each class!
TOPICS:
Week 1: Feminism & Film with Miss Representation (2011)
Week 2: Feminism & TV with The Truth about Female Desire (2015)
Week 3: Feminism, Comics & Graphic Novels with She Makes Comics (2014)
Week 4: Feminism & Music with My Prairie Home (2013) & Lemonade (2016)
Week 5: Feminism & Video Games with GFTO: The Movie (2015)
Week 6: Feminism & Supernatural Creatures with “Witches.” True Horror with Anthony Head (2004)
Each class is 2 hours, once a week.
$200 for 6 week course. $35 per class drop in fee
Email kristen@kh1art.ca for a course syllabus, inquire about the next seminar dates and to reserve a spot for the entire seminar or a weekly topic.
Dr. Kristen Hutchinson is an art historian, visual artist, curator, and art consultant. She received her PhD in the History of Art from University College London in 2007. Kristen has taught art history, feminism, popular culture courses at universities and colleges in Canada, the US, and the UK. She is currently writing a non-fiction book about supernatural creatures in contemporary art, film and television.
