Film and Media Studies 248 - Women and American Cinema: Representation, Spectatorship, Authorship
WOMEN AND AMERICAN CINEMA FILM
Fall
2020
F01
0.00
Alexandra Keller
Smith College
10468-F20
REMOTE
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 Lecture section.