ENGL 398 - Feminist Film Studies

Institution:

Smith College

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4 sem. hrs. Prereq.: ENGL 195 or ENGL 210. Analyzes how film form positions women and investigates how female audiences consume the medium. Topics include female directors and stars, gaze theory and psychoanalysis, melodrama and the "woman's film," feminist documentarylesbian cinema, female spectatorship and reception theory, race studies and postcolonialism, and postfeminism. Leonard.

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2.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.smith.edu

Phone Number:

(413) 584-2700

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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