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 111-253 Feminist Film & Television Theory

Note

Available as 111-353 at 3rd-year level.

Availability

Not offered in 1998.

Credit Points

16.7 2nd and 3rd year

Coordinator

Associate Professor Barbara Creed

Contact

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

Subject Description

This subject will explore the representation of women and men in popular Hollywood film, television and alternative films directed by women. Topics studied will include: stereotyping, sexual difference, spectatorship, the erotic, pornography, queer sexuality and political film-making.

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.
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