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Handbook 1997 : Faculty of Arts : Cinema Studies

111-253/353 Feminist Film Theory

Credit Points:

16.7 2nd and 3rd year

Coordinator:

Dr Barbara Creed

Prerequisite/s:

111-105.

Timetable:

Semester 2

Contact:

Not more than four hours of lectures, tutorials and film screenings each week

Subject Description:

This subject will analyse 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.

Assessment:

Written work which may comprise class papers, essays or take-home examinations totalling about 5000 words.

Prescribed Texts:

  • 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.
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