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Queer Film and Media Pedagogy

Gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered, and queer (GLBTQ) scholars today face an unprecedented travesty of their long-standing struggles for liberation and equality both in academe and throughout the public sphere. Notwithstanding increased positive GLBTQ representation in films and on television, anti-GLBTQ violence and disempowering legislative initiatives evidence a pervasive chipping away at hard-won pro-GLBTQ battles by neoconservative and neoliberal forces, which have insinuated themselves through the back door. The acuteness of these troubling conditions prompts urgent questions among GLBTQ film and media scholars, not least because their primary areas of study lie at the center of battles for control of public knowledge production about the general subject. These battles are now producing some of the most egregious consolidations of media industrial power in history: recalling Ben H. Bagdikian, the communications industry has become a “media monopoly” that works to sustain multinational rivalry over the world’s dwindling natural resources and increasingly disenfranchised labor force, dumb down the populace, politically isolate demographic regions, and suppress speech and free dissent, especially regarding strategies of resistance, wherever they may flourish.1 The following roundtable on queer film and media pedagogy is intended to