MEDA 233 - Film and Gender

Credit(s): 3
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 111.
Is there a woman in this movie or just a cultural fantasy? Is the hero forceful or sadistic? Selected film that highlight gender issues. Attention to the gender implications of cinematic language (film frame, sound, shot patterns, narrative structure); introduction to the major texts of gender criticism from, Laura Mulvey, 1977, to the present.