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CN2202:03

Men in Film

[Offered in odd-numbered years]

Townsville

HECS Band 1

26 hours workshops. Semester 2.

Available to all students with 12 units of level 1 subjects. This subject, together with other CN and EL subjects, can form part of a major in English. The lecturer in this subject should be consulted for further details.

Staff:

Dr C Mann.

Famous men film actors in some of their best known roles from the early days of sound cinema to the present.

Learning Objectives:

to study classical constitutions of men's screen roles by Hollywood;

to study examples of resistance to these constitutions;

to consider whether radically new constitutions of masculinity on screen are possible;

to develop an awareness of filmic techniques for transmitting meaning;

to develop skills in analysing men's screen roles in terms of theories of masculinity while paying due attention to filmic techniques.

Assessment by three assignments (50%); class participation (20%); one three hour end-of-semester examination (30%).