Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: GENDER AND HOLLYWOOD CINEMA IN THE 1950'S

Department: Art History

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, issues of voyeurism, and eroticism, and the ongoing conflict between liberated individualism and social conformity in corporate culture and bourgeois society. Cross-list: SWGS 485.