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 107-079 Feminist Film and Television Theory

Note

Formerly available as 111-253/353. Students who have completed 111-253/353 are not eligible to enrol in this subject.

Credit Points

12.5

HECS Band

1

Coordinator

Assoc Prof Barbara Creed

Prerequisites

Usually 12.5 points of first year cinema studies, see Prerequisites, or first year Women's studies, see Prerequisites.

Semester

Not Offered (view timetable)

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, soap operas, queer sexuality and political film-making. On completion of the subject students should recognize the major themes and methods in the study of the representation of women in classic Hollywood narrative cinema and television; understand the major methods in the study of the position of the female spectator; analyze the differences in the systems of representation of women in classic Hollywood, European and feminist cinemas, both independent and mainstream.



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