CN2203:04
Women in Film
Townsville
Prerequisites: 3 units of level 1 subjects
Inadmissable Subject Combination: CN3303
26 hours workshops. First semester.
Available to all students with 3 units of level 1 subjects. This subject, together with other CN subjects and VA1012, can form part of a 3-level strand in cinema studies. The lecturer in this subject should be consulted for further details.
Staff: Dr C Mann.
Famous women film actors in some of their best known roles from the silent cinema to the present.
Learning Objectives:
- to study classical constitutions of women’s screen roles by Hollywood;
- to study examples of resistance to these constitutions;
- to consider whether radically new constitutions of femininity on screen are possible;
- to develop an awareness of filmic techniques for transmitting meaning;
- to develop skills in analysing women’s screen roles in terms of feminist theory while paying due attention to filmic techniques.
Assessment by minor weekly assignments (40%); workshop participation (20%); major assignment (40%).