Forthcoming Events:
Gender Studies Film Club Launch for Spring 2021 Semester!
Living End Gender Studies Film Club E-Flyer
Tuesday 16th February, 7.30pm
The Living End (18, Gregg Araki 1992) with intro and post-screening discussion.
To celebrate the launch of Queer Studies in Dark Times module this year on the Gender Studies MLitt/MSc Programme we will be screening Gregg Araki’s cult New Queer Cinema film The Living End as the perfect post-Valentine’s anti-romance movie.
Described at the time by critics as ‘the Gay Thelma and Louise’ Araki’s film is imbued with the new-punk-aesthetic of the New Queer Cinema movement, whose nihilistic approach to film was brought on by the unresolved anger and trauma of the AIDS crisis. The film follows Jon (a film critic) and Luke (a hustler) who have both just found out they are HIV positive, and their raucous journey across the States in search of love and coming to terms with their new lives.
The screening will be introduced by Dr Darren Elliott-Smith (Senior Lecturer in Film and Gender) and will be followed by a discussion via Zoom.
Sign up to the Facebook Gender Studies Film Club Group to attend: