Course Catalog - 2003-2004

     

WGST 485 - GENDER IN 1950'S CINEMA

Long Title:
Department: *Women and Gender Studies*
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 limited to 20. ***** Also offered HART 485.