Featured, On Campus, On-Campus Developing - by Cody Brown on Monday, September 21, 2009 10:38 - 11 Comments - 1,709 views
A tipster reports that James Franco is taking Queer Cinema, an undergraduate course in the Tisch Cinema Studies department. Franco was said to have set off a mild frenzy when he showed up at the department floor. (Surprising, seeing as NYU students usually try to play it cool with, “Haley Joel Osmont? He’s actually a really sweet guy… I smoked with him once.”) His name is on the roster as James Edward Franco, though we’re told he already missed his first class. Franco – get it together.
A sampling of the academic syllabus:
Week 1: “You Don’t Know Dick: The Courageous Hearts of Transsexual Men” (1997 documentary)
Week 2: “Mom’s Apple Pie: The Heart of the Lesbian Mothers’ Custody Movement” (2006 documentary)
Week 3: “Loads” (12 minute film from 1971)
Week 7: “Bottom Values: Anal Economics in History of Black Neighborhoods” and “When are Dirty Details and Scenes Compelling? Tucked in the Cuts of Interracial Anal Rape,” both readings pulled from Kathryn Stockton’s book, “Beautiful Bottoms, Beautiful Shame.
The actor has shown previous interest in queer cinema, directing his own film in Tisch last school year based on gay poetry. We wish him the best here and please put your Blackberry cameras down.
11 Comments
Even when James Franco is registered for a class, he doesn’t necessarily show up. And when he does show up, he’s an hour late, and he sits in the corner and scribbles illegible, emphatic notes while everyone stares at him as though he might spontaneously combust or turn into a rabbit at any given moment.
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casey shain
i think it’s awesome. good for him. now i want to make a gay-themed movie for him to study. i s’pose there are worse motivations…
Carol White
If this is true, Smart and Sexy James Franco got even smarter and sexier! So James, I’d like to know what all that scribbling in class is about 
aka Maude
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Goddammit that syllabus is awesome.