Film and Media Studies 248 - WOMEN AND AMERICAN CINEMA

Fall
2017
01
4.00
Alexandra Keller
MW 01:10-02:30
Smith College
10165-F17
SEELYE 201
akeller@smith.edu
A survey of women in American films from the silent period to the present, examining: 1) how women are represented on film, and how those images relate to actual contemporaneous American society, culture, and politics; 2) how theoretical formulations, expectations, and realities of female spectatorship relate to genre, the star and studio systems (and other production and distribution modes), dominant and alternative codes of narration, and developments in digital and new media modes; and 3) how women as stars, writers, producers, and directors shape and respond to, work within and against, dominant considerations of how women look (in every sense).
Multiple required components--lab and/or discussion section. To register, submit requests for all components simultaneously.
You must also register for a section.
Permission is required for interchange registration during the add/drop period only.