DHUM 27A03 - Questions of Gender in Media and Culture

Media and popular culture have long played a key role in shaping and reflecting gendered, (power) relations, as well as processes of identification. This course will provide an introduction to the representations and constructions of gender in contemporary culture and media. It aims at developing students' understanding of gender, media and culture in a period of time of rapid globalisation and digitisation. Through this course, students will acquire theoretical and methodological tools to study gender in the media, and across a range of contemporary cultural phenomena. They will apply a critical lens to the representations of gender in popular cultural media, focusing on the production, circulation and reception of media representations of masculinity, femininity and sexuality. The course will also explores the ways in which questions of gender and sexuality might shape and inform identities. It will adopt an intersectional approach, and will analyze the way gender intersects with race, class and sexuality.

Brigitte ROLLET

Séminaire

English

Autumn 2021-2022

Class Participation: 20% Reviews on 2 different medias: 30% (2 x 15%) Group or individual Presentation: 20% (from week 3) Final Exam: 30%