PMA 4701

Nightlife

Course Description

Course information provided by the 2025-2026 Catalog.

This course explores nightlife as a temporality that fosters countercultural performances of the self and that serves as a site for the emergence of alternative kinship networks. Focusing on queer communities of color, course participants will be asked to interrogate the ways in which nightlife demonstrates the queer world-making potential that exists beyond the normative 9-5 capitalist model of production. Performances of the everyday, alongside films, texts, and performance art, will be analyzed through a performance studies methodological lens. Through close readings and sustained cultural analysis, students will acquire a critical understanding of the potentiality of spaces, places, and geographies codified as after hours in the development of subcultures, alternative sexualities, and emerging performance practices.

Distribution Requirements (CA-AG, D-AG, LA-AG), (ALC-AS, SCD-AS)

Last 4 Terms Offered 2025SP, 2023SP, 2022SP, 2021SP

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