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760-321 Sexuality and Gender in Media Arts | |
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Note | This is a media arts (T) subject. |
Availability | 3rd year |
Credit Points | 12.5 |
HECS Band | 1 |
Coordinator | Graham Jones |
Prerequisites | 12.5 points of second-year media arts (T). |
Semester | 2 (view timetable) |
Contact | A 1-hour lecture and a 2-hour screening and a 1-hour tutorial per week |
Subject Description | This subject involves a study of the different ways in which sexuality and gender have been represented in cinema (and other related visual practices). Topics to be discussed include the theorisation of the 'gaze'; feminist theories of sexuality and gender; psychoanalytic models of desire, sadomasochism and fetishisation; constructions of masculinity and femininity, heterosexuality and homosexuality in Hollywood cinema and independent film; debates concerning the legitimacy of pornography; discussions of performativity, masquerade and cross-dressing; questions of gay and lesbian visibility; and the emergence and development of 'queer' theory over the last two decades. |
Assessment | Written work totalling 4000 words. |
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