Unit name | Gender, Sexuality and Cinema |
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Unit code | MODL30018 |
Credit points | 20 |
Level of study | H/6 |
Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 2 (weeks 13 - 24) |
Unit director | Professor. O'Rawe |
Open unit status | Not open |
Pre-requisites |
None |
Co-requisites |
None |
School/department | School of Modern Languages |
Faculty | Faculty of Arts |
The unit Gender, Sexuality and Cinema explores screen representations of gender and sexuality focusing specifically on a range of contemporary film texts. The unit is designed to enable students to analyse cinema’s role in shaping and framing cultural understandings of both gender and sexuality across a range of different global and linguistic contexts. Students will explore definitions and notions of gender/sexuality through diverse theoretical perspectives, including notably feminist film criticism and queer theory. The unit will explore a number of key concepts (such as identity/subjectivity, discourse/language, performance/performativity, transgression/subversion, form/style, spectatorship/reception, place/space, race/ethnicity) through a broad range of international films taken from across the globe. The unit will place a particular emphasis on the linguistic provenance and cultural specificity of the films covered to encourage students to develop a comparative analytical framework for the study of a key strand of contemporary critical theory in the context of cinema studies.
All films studied will be sub-titled and students are not expected to study secondary criticism in the target language given the comparative nature of the unit.
Films studied will include a number of the following: City of God (Mereilles/Lund, 2002), Goodfellas (Scorsese, 1990), Infernal Affairs (Lau/Mak, 2002), A Prophet (Audiard, 2009), All About My Mother (Almodóvar, 1999), Bad Education (Almodóvar, 2004) Paris is Burning (Livingston, 1990), Far From Heaven (Haynes, 2002), Tomboy (Sciamma, 2011), Blue is the Warmest Colour (Kechiche, 2013), Happy Together (Wong, 1997), Tom At The Farm (Dolan, 2013), Beau Travail (Denis, 1999), Water Lilies (Sciamma, 2007).
Unit aims:
By the end of this unit, students will be able to:
Teaching will be delivered through a combination of synchronous sessions and asynchronous activities, including seminars, lectures, formative tasks and collaborative as well as self-directed learning opportunities supported by tutor consultation
1 x sequence analysis , 1500 words (25%), testing ILOs 1-4 and 6
1 x 3500-word essay (75%), testing ILOs 1-6
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How much time the unit requires
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Assessment
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