Collins Memorial Library: Gender & Queer Studies: Films & Media

Films

The library has a film collection that includes documentaries and feature films related to many gender studies topics. Do a keyword search on your topic in Primo and use the Advanced Search to see which films are available.

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Streaming Media: Academic Video Online (AVON)

Academic Video Online (AVON)
Is a video subscription that delivers almost 70,000 titles spanning subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more.

The following Channels provide a selection of documentaries and other videos on the topics of gender and sexuality hosted through AVON.

LGBT Studies in Video
A cinematic survey of the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people as well as the cultural and political evolution of the LGBT community.
Women's and Gender Studies Video Online
A collection of films and documentaries that address women's and gender studies topics.

Feminist Theory Channel

Streaming Media: Kanopy

Kanopy
Provides access to thousands of award-winning films, thought-provoking documentaries, latest festival hits, classic films, TV series, and more. The collection of films support a wide variety of subject areas including the arts, media studies, politics, diversity, equity and inclusion, LGBTQAI+, psychology, business, sciences, health, education, history.

Films streamed on Kanopy are provided to the Puget Sound community for classroom and educational purposes only. Films that have been licensed are immediately available on the Kanopy platform. If a film has not been licensed for use, you may submit a Kanopy request form and the library will consider the request.

Search for films by title, subject, keywords, or browse by subject. Register with Kanopy to utilize features such as playlists, clips, sharing, embedding, and creating a watch list for future viewing.

Gender Studies
A selection of documentaries and other videos on the topics of gender and sexuality hosted through Kanopy.
LGBT Studies
A selection of documentaries for streaming on LGBTQ topics through Kanopy.

Selected Feature Films

Collins Library includes a growing collection of LGBTQ cinema on DVD. You can also request DVDs from SUMMIT and other libraries via ILL.

Call Me By Your Name by Luca Guadagnino
Call Number: PS3601.C525 C35 2018 DVD Collection

ISBN: 9786317165465

Publication Date: 2017

In 1980s Italy, romance blossoms between a seventeen-year-old student and the older man hired as his father's research assistant. This coming-of-age romantic drama is based on the acclaimed novel by André Aciman.
Moonlight by Barry Jenkins
Call Number: PS3613.C38625 M66 2017 DVD Collection

ISBN: 6316715501

Publication Date: 2017

A timeless story of human connection and self-discovery, Moonlight chronicles the life of a young black man from childhood to adulthood as he struggles to find his place in the world while growing up in a rough neighborhood of Miami.
Tangerine by Sean Baker
Call Number: PS3602 .A54 T3 2015 DVD Collection

ISBN: 9786316214973

Publication Date: 2015

Shot on an iPhone, this film follows a transgender sex worker and her best friend searching for the man who broke her heart.

Selected Documentary Films

The Archivettes by Megan Rossman (Director)
Call Number: Z695.L48 A73 2018 DVD Collection

Publication Date: 2018

A feature-length documentary film about the Lesbian Herstory Archives and the personal lives of the women involved in it. The film provides a comprehensive look at the history of the group, the materials it protects and the challenges arising as the founders face their final years.
The Bro Code: How Contemporary Culture Creates Sexist Men by Thomas Keith
Call Number: BF692.5 .B76 2011 DVD Collection

ISBN: 9781932869552

Publication Date: 2011

Filmmaker Thomas Keith takes aim at the forces in male culture that condition boys and men to dehumanize and disrespect women, and challenges young people to step up and fight back against the idea that being a real man means being sexist.
The Codes of Gender: Identity + Performance in Popular Culture by Sut Jhally
Call Number: P96.S5 C6 2009 DVD Collection

ISBN: 9781932869392

Publication Date: 2009

Communication scholar Sut Jhally applies the late sociologist Erving Goffman's groundbreaking analysis of advertising to the contemporary commercial landscape in this provocative new film about gender as a ritualized cultural performance.
Kate Bornstein is a queer & pleasant danger by director/writer, Sam Feder
Call Number: HQ77.8 .B67 2013 DVD Collection

Publication Date: 2013

Performance artist and writer Kate Bornstein explores binaries while deconstructing gender--and her own identity.
Generation M: Misongyny in Media and Culture by Thomas Keith
Call Number: HQ1233 .G46 2008 DVD Collection

ISBN: 9781932869279

Publication Date: 2008

Keith looks specifically at misogyny and sexism in mainstream American media, exploring how negative definitions of femininity and hateful attitudes toward women get constructed and perpetuated at the very heart of our popular culture.
Killing Us Softly: Advertising's Image of Women by Sut Jhally; Jean Kilbourne
Call Number: HF5827 .K555 2010 DVD Collection

ISBN: 9781932869446

Publication Date: 2010

In this update of the pioneering Killing us Softly series, Jean Kilbourne takes a fresh look at how advertising traffics in distorted and destructive ideals of femininity.
Paris is Burning by Jennie Livingston
Call Number: HQ76.2.U52 N535 2012 DVD Collection

Publication Date: 1990

The "unblinking behind-the-scenes story of the fashion-obsessed New Yorkers who created 'voguing' and drag balls, and turned these raucous celebrations into a powerful expression of fierce personal pride."
Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria by Susan Stryker
Call Number: HQ76.8.U52 S34 2010 DVD Collection

Publication Date: 2010

Tells the little-known story of the first known act of collective, violent resistance to the social oppression of queer people in the United States - a 1966 riot in San Francisco's impoverished Tenderloin neighborhood, three years before the famous gay riot at New York's Stonewall Inn.
She's Beautiful When She's Angry by Mary Dore
Call Number: HQ1154 .S524 2014 DVD Collection

Publication Date: 2014

An essential documentary about the birth of the women's liberation movement. Beginning in the late 1960s, featuring never-seen before archival footage and new interviews this film tells the story of one of the most important social movements of the 20th century, bringing to light the efforts of lesser-known activists and grassroots organizations across the country who played a pivotal role in the struggle.
Straightlaced How Gender's Got Us All Tied Up by Debra Chasnoff
Call Number: HQ1075.5.U6 S77 2011 DVD Collection

Publication Date: 2011

Meet 50 incredibly diverse students who take us on a powerful, intimate journey to see how popular pressures around gender and sexuality are shaping the lives of today's American teens. Demonstrates how gender-based expectations are deeply intertwined with homophobia, and also are impacted by race, ethnicity and class.
Transgender Tuesdays: A Clinic in the Tenderloin by Mark Freeman; Nathaniel Walters-Koh
Call Number: RA564.9.T73 T723 2012 DVD/Video Collection

Publication Date: 2012

Chronicles the lives of 12 courageous people who came to the first-ever public health clinic in the US to offer full primary care to transgender people in San Francisco's gritty Tenderloin District. The warm narratives of these pioneering patients turn the harrowing places they have been into a testament of victory and hope.