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Join MQUP author Maria San Filippo for a Q&A with filmmaker Desiree Akhavan about her film, Appropriate Behaviour.
Admission is free. No advance reservations. Free tickets must be obtained on a first come, first served basis at the box office, where seating will be assigned.
Billy Wilder Theater
10899 Wilshire Blvd,
Los Angeles, CA 90024, United States
More details: Appropriate Behavior | UCLA Film & Television Archive
Maria San Filippo is associate professor of media studies at Emerson College.
The first volume in the Queer Film Classics series to spotlight a work by and about a bisexual woman of colour, this book explores Appropriate Behavior as an instant classic of US indie filmmaking in the 2010s, as a radical reappropriation of straight and gay film genres, as an artist’s coming-of-age story, and as a model for feminist-queer creative collaboration. Less than a decade old, Appropriate Behavior captures an urban queer community imperilled by gentrification and homonormativity and serves as exemplar of an innovative wave of independent cinema not yet subsumed by the streaming economy. Maria San Filippo explores how filmmaker and film render a singular voice and story that queers not only its celebrated romcom predecessors but also the gay coming-out film and the lesbian romance alike. The book concludes with an interview with Akhavan.