Not offered in 1996. 16.7 4th Year Ms Angela Ndalianis. At least three Cinema Studies subjects at second or third year level. A 2 hour seminar and a 2 hour screening per week. Students completing this subject should:

• understand the ideological implications behind the process of stereotyping and the structuring of types within both mainstream and non-mainstream film as well as television;
• evaluate the validity of the psychoanalytic interpretations of sexual difference, identification, voyeurism and fetishism and explore how relevant these models are within a filmic context.
• apply a variety of theoretical approaches to close textual analysis of specific films and television programmes;
• account for the place of the male/female spectator within the spectator-screen relationship;

Issues dealing with the representation and construction of femininity and masculinity in mainstream film, non-mainstream film and television. Areas covered may include: ideological processes and filmic modes of address involved in the construction of the gendered subject, sexual difference and queer theory, the role of the star as gender emblem, and the muscle phenomenon of the 80s and 90s. Written work which may comprise class papers, essays, visual tests or take-home examinations totalling about 6,000 words. Not offered in 1996. 16.7 4th Year Ms Angela Ndalianis. At least three Cinema Studies subjects at second or third year level. A 2 hour seminar and a 2 hour screening per week. Students completing this subject should:

• understand the ideological implications behind the process of stereotyping and the structuring of types within both mainstream and non-mainstream film as well as television;
• evaluate the validity of the psychoanalytic interpretations of sexual difference, identification, voyeurism and fetishism and explore how relevant these models are within a filmic context.
• apply a variety of theoretical approaches to close textual analysis of specific films and television programmes;
• account for the place of the male/female spectator within the spectator-screen relationship.

Issues dealing with the representation and construction of femininity and masculinity in mainstream film, non-mainstream film and television. Areas covered may include: ideological processes and filmic modes of address involved in the construction of the gendered subject, sexual difference and queer theory, the role of the star as gender emblem, and the muscle phenomenon of the 80s and 90s. Written work which may comprise class papers, essays, visual tests or take-home examinations totalling about 6,000 words.