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SUMMARY:Sexuality Summer School: Professor Patricia White (Swarthmore)\, 
 Public Lecture: "Lesbian Reverie: Carol as History and Fantasy"
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DESCRIPTION:Rather than a forward-looking lesbian representation\, Todd H
 aynes’s Carol\, an adaptation by Phyllis Nagy of Patricia Highsmith’s 19
 52 novel\, The Price of Salt\, looks to images and affective investments
  of the past to explore lesbian representability\, the historical discou
 rses and aesthetic codes through which desire between women can be recog
 nized. Set in a gray New York and in an American Midwest of diners and r
 oadside motels\, Carol inhabits the terrain of what Heather Love calls “
 feeling backwards\,” -- lesbianism is associated with paranoia and unfit
  motherhood. Its heroine and plot are remarkably sketchy\, and a reverie
 -like quality is captured in the film’s exquisite styling\, camerawork\,
  and score. But as an adaption of a novel written “back then” that susta
 ins\, rather than (only) punishes\, the heroines’ and the reader’s desir
 e\, Carol takes intervening histories into account. Haynes and his lesbi
 an collaborators fuse preoccupations from the director’s oeuvre\, with i
 ts “mise-en-scene of desire” or authorial fantasy derived from the mid-c
 entury women’s picture\, with Highsmith’s self-inscription to render the
  rilm’s core seduction fantasy public and present\, even hopeful\, howev
 er retro and dreamy the film looks in our current mediascape.\n\nIntrodu
 ced by Professor Richard Dyer (Kings)\; Chair: Professor Jackie Stacey (
 Manchester)\n\nThis is one of a series of public events that accompany t
 he Sexuality Summer School\, a five-day event for postgraduates\, organi
 zed by the Centre for the Study of Sexuality and Culture (CSSC) at the U
 niversity of Manchester since 2008 and funded by the University of Manch
 ester Faculty of Humanities and Screen\, and partnered by Contact\, HOME
  and Manchester Pride. The Sexuality Summer School brings postgraduates\
 , researchers and international scholars together with artists and filmm
 akers to facilitate dialogue and discussions that speak to contemporary 
 debates in queer and feminist sexuality studies\, with a particular emph
 asis on the interdisciplinary study of culture.\n\nFor more information 
 about the Sexuality Summer School\, including a short film on what we do
 \, and details of previous events\, visit sexualitysummerschool.wordpres
 s.com\, email sexualitysummerschool@gmail.com to get on the mailing list
 \, Facebook Sexuality Summer School or tweet @SSS_Manchester.
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LOCATION:HOME\, 2 Tony Wilson Place\, Manchester\, M15 4FN
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