WMGST-379 Transnational Feminist Frames--Methods
How are gender and sexuality figured in contemporary visual culture? This course seeks answers in the work of (women) filmmakers with South Asian and Iranian ties, including Ana Lily Amanpour (A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night [2014]), Gurinder Chadha (Bend It Like Beckham [2002]), Samira Makhmalbaf (Blackboards [2009]), and Sabiha Sumar (Silent Waters [2003]). Spanning national and regional borders, it examines contextual and formal challenges artists navigate as they probe the complexity of gendered lives. It asks how notions of gender, sexuality, and nation shape film form, and how form might be used to think anew about such social structures.
Seminar (12)
Credits
1
Prerequisite
A 200-level course in Literature (LIT), Women’s and Gender Studies (WMGST), or permission of the instructor
Notes
(Theory); Methods