Course Lectures

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Part I.  Culture and Ideology in Film

Week 1  Introduction
Format Hi bandwidth (56K or higher); Lo bandwidth (28.8K or lower)

Week 2  Film Language/Technique
Format Hi band; Lo band

Week 3 Ideology
Format Hi band; Lo band

Part II.  Intersectionalities and Various Approaches to Film Criticism

Week 4  Ideology and Race
Format Hi band; Lo band

Week 5  Psychoanalysis and Gender
Format Hi band; Lo band

Week 6A-B Sexuality, Gender and Ideology

6A  An Exploration of Gayle Rubin's "Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality"
Format Hi band; Lo band

6B  Lynn Weber's Conceptual Framework
Format Hi band; Lo band

Week 7  Love and Ideology
Format Hi band; Lo band

Week 8 Film Noir, Masculinity and Femininity
Format Hi band; Lo band

Week 9  Independent Films and Counterculture of the late 20th Century
Format Hi band; Lo band

Week 10  MIDTERMS

Part III.  Case Study: The Evolution of Frankenstein Films

Week 11A-B  The Politics of the Gaze: Anxieties of Gender and Technology in Frankenstein Films

11A  Men Don't Know Nothin' 'bout Birthin' no Babies
Format Hi band; Lo band

11B  Sons of Frankenstein
Format Hi band; Lo band

Week 12  Monstrosity, Sex and Gender
Format Hi band; Lo band

Week 13  Class, Race and the Horror Film
Format Hi band; Lo band

Week 14  Masculinities and Femininities in Frankenstein Films
Format Hi band; Lo band

Week 15  Contemporary Renditions of the Frankenstein Myth
Format Hi band; Lo band