Admission requirements
Not applicable
Description
Gender studies offers a new way to watch films and look at the images surrounding you in your everyday world. Film theorists like Mulvey, Doane, and Modleski show how voyeurism and exhibitionism play a role in how women and men experience films. Art theorists like Berger, Bryson and Pollock also demonstrate how our way of looking is highly gendered. In this course, on the basis of classic Hollywood favorites, more subversive films and your own found material, we analyze how we might look differently at images of men and women. We will learn how visual texts organize who is to be seen and the ideal spectator, the question is how films and other texts from visual culture structure the gaze and to what effect. We explore genres like the nude and male pin-up, action films and melodramas as well as how whiteness/blackness and sexuality structure relations of looking.
Course objectives
After completion of the course:
the student has insight into the theoretical debate on gender and visual culture;
the student masters the most important concepts in this discussion;
the student is able to deploy these critical concepts and discussions in his/her analysis of visual material (film, photography and visual arts);
the student is independently able to select cultural phenomena that are relevant to the discussion about the “look” and to analyze the organization of “gaze”.
Timetable
The timetable is available on the website.
Mode of instruction
Lectures mixed with workgroup class meetings
Course Load
Voyeurism 140 hrs total
Course meetings: 12 hrs
Preparation for meetings: 108 hrs
Assignments and Exams: 20 hrs
Assessment method
Oral Presentation (15%) and Written Final Essay (85%)
Blackboard
Blackboard will be used for communication, providing literature and/or other study material, for turnitin, and where applicable for reading and writing assignments, discussion forums, peer feedback, and to ask questions to the teacher and/or fellow students.
Reading list
Longer academic texts are available through the ‘collegeplank’ in the University Library and can be copied on site. Shorter texts are posted on Blackboard
Registration
Enrolment through uSis for classes, exams and final papers is mandatory.
General information about uSis is available in English and Dutch
Registration Studeren à la carte and Contractonderwijs
N.a.
Contact
For questions about the content of the course, you can contact the teacher Dr. E.A. Steinbock
Student administration: Van Wijkplaats
Coordinator of studies: ms. drs. E.M.T.Poolman
Remarks
For more information please check the website of the study program Film and Literature Studies.