This workshop will introduce students to issues related to gender and how feminist theories help for the analysis of films. These issues are usually framed in reference to women's access to and roles in the production of media and women's representation within these media.Through this course, students will acquire theoretical and methodological tools to study gender in films. They will apply a critical lens to the representations of gender in cinema, focusing on the production, circulation and reception of filmic representations of masculinity, femininity and sexuality. Two main sections will be developped : 1. the historical gendered dimension of film making and women's role as artists 2. the way gender issues (as well as class, race and sexuality) influence filmic representations and vice versa.
Brigitte ROLLET
Atelier
English
None
Spring 2024-2025
Oral presentation (individual or group): 20%
Class Participation: 20%
Film diary: 40%
In-class exam: 20%
Week 1 : Introducing Gender and film
Week 2 : Gender and History
Week 3 : Gender and the Gaze (1)
Week 4 : Gender and the Gaze (2)
Week 5 :Gender and representations (1)
Week 6 :Gender and representations (2)
Week 7 :Gender and representations (3)
Week 8 :Gender and Genres (1) Woman's film/melodramas
Week 9 :Gender and Genres (2) Western
Week 10 : Audience, Reception and Gender (1)
Week 11 :Audience, Reception and Gender (2)
Week 12 :In-class essay
Susan Hayward, Key Concepts in Cinema Studies, Routledge.