Mar 28, 2024  
2021-2022 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2021-2022 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

WGS 2420 - Gender, Sex, and Film

Credits: 4
This course will explore how film intentionally or unintentionally reflects and shapes our perceptions of sex and gender categories and norms.  Throughout the course we will examine mainstream, independent, and international films looking at how gender, sex and race are represented.  We will analyze how women and men and transgender persons have historically been portrayed in film and how sex and race are interlocked with gender.  Questions and topics include how have sexualities and gender identities - i.e., cisgender, heterosexual, and LGBTQ+ – been represented during different socio-historical periods; how do different film genres from romance to horror to comedy position characters according to notions of sex and gender; who do we identify with and why; and how do different audiences respond to characters based on the intersections of sex, race, and gender? Students will have the opportunity to reverse the lens and experiment with video. 
Fulfills: AL and D in LS Core.