Course details

Name: ENFL - 365

Title: GENDER and SEXUALITY IN FILM

Section: 01

Semester: Spring - 2016

Credits: 3

Description:
This semester Gender and Sexuality in Film will focus on a specific period in the history of American cinema—1955 to 1965. This often-overlooked period bridges the demise of the classical Hollywood studio era and the rise of the New Hollywood. It also encompasses the last days of the Hollywood Production Code. As a transitional period, it produced scores of films that negotiated changing sexual mores and definitions of gender. While we will pay particular attention to the representation of women during this period and such stars as Elizabeth Taylor, Natalie Wood and Shirley MacLaine, we will also take note of how the industry treated masculinity, notably in films featuring Warren Beatty and Steve McQueen. Still, not all films from this period explored new definitions of gender and we will also examine films in which Hollywood clung to residual or conventional representations of men and women. Films likely to be screened include Butterfield 8, Love with the Proper Stranger, Splendor in the Grass, That Touch of Mink, Goldfinger.

Last updated on 2015-10-26 By Simon Arthur (simona)

Schedule: Thursday From 2:30 pm To 5:15 pm

Graduation requirements:

• Genre Study (Film)
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• Women and Gender Studies (3c)

Teaching Faculty: Simon Arthur (simona)

Is course canceled: No