FNMS 322 - Women and Film

This course is formulated around paradoxes: it will trouble the category of “woman,” while also analyzing key areas in which gender identity has affected the film industry: the representation of women, filmmakers (cis-women, trans, non-binary, and otherwise self-identifying folks), and feminist film theory. Students will watch films from Rear Window and Daughters of the Dust to The Witch and Legally Blonde, with the goal of illuminating how the idea of “woman” is constructed on film and how audiences engage, reshape, and elaborate on that construction in their everyday lives.

Prerequisites
Students are strongly encouraged to have taken either FNMS 258, WGS 101 or WGS 102 prior to taking this course.

Credits 4

Notes
Cross-listed with WGS 322 . New course

Area
Humanities

Division
Arts and Humanities

Compass Attributes
Humanities