LIT-379 Transnational Feminist Frames--Methods

This course looks at the work of (women) filmmakers with South Asian and Iranian ties to ask how contemporary visual culture figures gender and sexuality. It spans national and regional borders to examine contextual and formal challenges artists navigate as they probe the complexity of gendered lives. Amanpour (A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night, 2014), Chadha (Bend It Like Beckham, 2002), Makhmalbaf (Blackboards, 2009), and Sumar (Silent Waters, 2003), and others. How do notions of gender, sexuality, and nation shape film form? How might form be used to think anew about such social structures?

Maximum Enrollment

Seminar (12)

(Writing Intensive, Social Structural and Institutional Hierarchies, Seminar.)

Credits

1

Cross Listed Courses

WMGST-379, WMGST-379

Prerequisite

A 200-level course in Literature, Women’s and Gender Studies, or permission of the instructor.

Offered

Fall

Notes

Methods. (Theory, SSIH). This course will be graded on a S/U basis.