New Queer Characters: Gender/Sexuality, Television/Streaming, Mexico/Spain

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Internationally celebrated visual studies scholar and Hispanist, Paul Julian Smith, explores the possibilities for new queer content in a new media environment where sexuality, nationality, and technology freely intersect.

A common trend has emerged in recent years: the new prominence of feminist and queer plotlines and characters in Mexican and Spanish drama on television and streaming. In this talk Dr. Smith will take four case studies as illustrations of the current audiovisual field, along the lines suggested by his title: two on gender and two on sex; two from Mexico and two from Spain; and two from free to air television channels and two from the new streaming platforms. The talk's aim is to explore the possibilities for new queer content in this new media environment where sexuality, nationality, and technology so freely intersect.

Paul Julian Smith is a Distinguished Professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Elected a fellow of the British Academy in 2008, his interests are wide-ranging and interdisciplinary. Among several areas of research, his publications have earned Paul a reputation as the major world scholar on the films of the Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar.

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