Course Schedule and Catalog

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 4

Description: GENDER AND HOLLYWOOD CINEMA IN THE 1950S ***** 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, eroticism, the ongoing conflict between liberated individualism and social conformity in corporate culture and bourgeois society. ***** Enrollment is limited to 15. ***** Also offered WGST 458.