Course Catalog - 2006-2007

     

WGST 485 - GENDER AND HOLLYWOOD 1950'S

Long Title: GENDER AND HOLLYWOOD CINEMA IN THE 1950'S
Department: *Women and Gender Studies*
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: This course examines representations of gendered subjectivity in Hollywood cinema during the 1950s. Some of the topics to be addressed include the uneasy relationship between normative domesticity and heterosexual masculinity, and issues of voyeurism and eroticism, and the ongoing conflict between liberated individualism and social conformity in corporate culture and bourgeois society. Cross-list: HART 485.