MEDIA 711
Feminist Film Theory
Please note: this is archived course information from 2021 for MEDIA 711.
Description
This course examines the long and rich tradition of feminist film theory and provides students with an understanding of its concerns. Topics will include the key semiotic and psychoanalytic approaches of the 1970s-1990s, Hollywood films which have inspired feminist debate, avant-garde cinema and postmodern cinema, as well as recent cinematic reconceptualisations of gender and sexuality. Students will become familiar with key theoretical concepts such as the gaze, desire, intersectionality, abjection, masochism and masquerade, as well as modes of feminist, queer and transgender resistance to traditional gender hierarchies.
Availability 2021
Not taught in 2021
Lecturer(s)
TBA
Points
MEDIA 711: 30 points
Restrictions
FTVMS 711, 735
