26 hours workshops. Semester 1.
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 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 three assignments (50%); class participation (20%); end-of-semester examination (30%).
