GENDER AND FILM
FREN 5338 / WOMS 4392
SPRING 2001
W 6-9PM
This course explores the representation and construction of gender (both masculine and feminine) in and through film. Adopting both an historical and theoretical approach, we will focus on how masculinity and femininity, in its various forms and combinations, is signified, how both the gender of the character and the spectator is implicated in the cinematic gaze, and how gender characterizations inform and reflect the larger culture/society surrounding the film. A wide variety of cinematic traditions will be discussed, and although French film will form the base of the course, other national and regional cinemas will be explored, both through the screening of full-length films and numerous excerpts of others. We will screen films by Jean Renoir, Louis Malle, Jean-Luc Godard, Agnès Varda, Claude Chabrol and others, as well as Pedro Almodovar, Wim Wenders Alfred Hitchcock and other filmmakers from Latin America and the United States Films will primarily be screened in class.
COURSE TAUGHT IN ENGLISH. ALL FILMS SUB-TITLED
CONTACT DR. KIMBERLY VAN NOORT: vannoort@uta.edu or 272-5529