EGL 304 - Jr. Seminar (Fall): Gender, Culture, and Cinema

Course Units: 1

(Fall; Troxell) Over the course of the term, we will investigate the ways in which various media texts transmit and construct gender and sexuality. As we analyze films by such directors as Alfred Hitchcock, Douglas Sirk, Julie Dash, Jennie Livingston, and Jonathan Caouette, we will explore how conceptions of gender and sexuality are facilitated and constrained by legal, medical, and ethical discourses that emerge from specific historical and geographic contexts. In addition to analyzing Hollywood narrative cinema, we will investigate counter-media practices that use form to resist approaches to gender and sexuality found in dominant media platforms and traditions. Common Curriculum CC: HUL, WAC