Not offered in 1996. 16.7 2nd and 3rd years Dr Barbara Creed. 111-105. No more than four hours of lectures, tutorials and film screenings a week. Students completing this subject should:

• recognize the major themes and methods in the study of the representation of women in classic Hollywood narrative cinema, particularly as this relates to genre.
• understand the major methods in the study of the position of the female spectator in narrative cinema.
• demonstrate awareness of the emergence of a feminist cinema, and differences in its representation of woman and its positioning of women as spectators.
• analyze the differences in the systems of representation of women in classic Hollywood, European and feminist cinemas, both Independent and mainstream.

This subject will analyze and compare the representation of women and the role of the female spectator in classic and contemporary Hollywood, European and feminist cinemas. Major theories employed will include psychoanalysis, semiotics and sociology. Topics to be studied will include the operation of patriarchy, sexual difference, desire and the gaze. Written work which may comprise class papers, essays or take-home examinations totalling 5,000 words. Diedre Pribram Female Spectators: Looking at Film and Television Verso London 1988 P. Cook and P. Dodd Women and Film: A Sight and Sound Reader PH Temple University Press Philadelphia 1993