Humanities and Media and Cultural Studies 315 - Gender, Sexuality, And Film

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Macalester College

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This course explores a variety of critical approaches to the representation of gender and sexuality in film and video, including psychoanalytic feminist film theory and criticism, gay and lesbian studies, queer theory, narrative analysis, ideological critique and cultural studies of gender and sexuality in relation to race, nation, and class. How have social constructs about gender and sexuality been promulgated and/or contested in film and video within both mainstream and avant-garde contexts of cultural production How have these constructs functioned to uphold and/or challenge other forms of social stratification or privilege In asking these questions, the course considers a wide range of issues, including drag, camp, spectatorship, identity and identification, the gaze, assimilation, social change, body politics, realism, and pornography. Written work emphasizes the close analysis of film texts. Prerequisites: sophomore standing and previous experience with one of the following fields: women's, gender and sexuality studies, cultural studies and/or media studies, or permission of the instructor. Alternate years. Not offered 2008-2009. (4 credits)

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.macalester.edu

Phone Number:

(651) 696-6000

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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