GEN135 World Cinema from the Perspective of Gender and Feminist Theory

Faculty of Social Studies
Autumn 2009
Extent and Intensity
1/1. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Pavlína Míčová (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Kateřina Nedbálková, Ph.D.
Department of Sociology – Faculty of Social Studies
Timetable
Mon 12. 10. 8:00–11:40 P21, Mon 9. 11. 8:00–11:40 P21, Mon 7. 12. 8:00–11:40 P21
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
At the end of the course students should be able to:
- understand the development of feminist film theory;
- explain the historical development of the process of establishing the female presentation in cinematography;
- apply the concept of film analysis using the gender perspective and feminist film theory;
This course offers an overview of the world filmography from the aspects of gender and feminist theories. It traces film genres being formed by ideologies, basic periodisation and typology of film production. The course stresses psychic, cultural, social and political relevance of the construction and distribution of visual information. It includes analyses of particular film extracts.;
Syllabus
  • The birth of feminist activism in the 1970s Search for terminology for categorisation of feminist films Sociologickal direction and the Britisch school: attemts to theoretize using feminist discourse Critics of the Britisch school: Camera Obscura Enforcement of feminist film theory: Vizual pleasure and a narrative film of Laury Mulvy Catalying effects: evaluation of the importance of essay Feminist film theory in the 1980s and 1190s and the question of female audience Slavoj Žižek and problematization of the feminist point of view
Literature
  • PACHMANOVÁ, Martina. Věrnost v pohybu :hovory o feminismu, dějinách a vizualitě. 1. vyd. Praha: One Woman Press, 2001, 237 s. ISBN 80-86356-10-8. info
  • MORRIS, Pam. Literatura a feminismus. Vyd. 1. Brno: Host, 2000, 232 s. ISBN 80-86055-90-6. info
  • BARTHES, Roland. Mythologies. Translated by Annette Lavers. 1st pub. London: Vintage, 2000, 158 s. ISBN 0-09-997220-4. info
  • Dívčí válka s ideologií :klasické texty angloamerického feministického myšlení. Edited by Libora Oates-Indruchová, Translated by Hana Hájková. Vyd. 1. Praha: Sociologické nakladatelství, 1998, 304 s. ISBN 80-85850-67-2. info
  • BRAIDOTTI, Rosi. Nomadic subjects : embodiment and sexual difference in contemporary feminist theory. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994, xi, 325. ISBN 0231082355. info
  • CLOVER, Carol J. Men, women, and chain saws : gender in the modern horror film. 1st pub. London: BFI Publishing, 1992, 260 s. ISBN 0851704190. info
  • Feminism and film theory. Edited by Constance Penley. New York: Routledge, 1988, vii, 273. ISBN 0415901081. info
  • DOANE, Mary Ann. The desire to desire :the woman's film of the 1940s. 1st pub. Basingstoke: Macmillan Press, 1988, 211 s. ISBN 0-333-45535-5. info
  • Narrative, apparatus, ideology : a film theory reader. Edited by Philip Rosen. New York: Columbia University Press, 1986, 549 s. ISBN 0231058810. info
  • KAPLAN, E. Ann. Women and film : both sides of the camera. 1st pub. London: Routledge, 1983, xii, 259. ISBN 0415027640. info
  • METZ, Christian. The imaginary signifier :psychoanalysis and the cinema. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1982, vii, 327 s. ISBN 0-253-20380-5. info
Teaching methods
lectures
Assessment methods
final essay
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2007, Autumn 2007, Autumn 2008, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2012.
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