Course Schedule and Catalog

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: FEMINIST LITERARY THEORY: FILM ***** An overview of developments in feminist film theory over the last three decades, with an emphasis on the writing of the last decade. The course explores how feminist film theory makes use of and contributes to a range of methodologies, including psychodynamic approaches, historcist approaches, and critical race and ethnicity theory. We will view lots of relevant films with an eye to understanding both how the art of cinema shapes socially powerful meanings and how feminist interpretation, and feminist film making, make a difference in the kinds of cultural work that cinema performs. ***** Also offered as WGST 480.