SCME2102 Sex and Gender

Associate Professor Julia Erhart

Not offered in 2013

2011

4.5

1 x 1-hour lecture weekly
1 x 1-hour tutorial weekly
1 x 2-hour film screening weekly

SCRN2003 has been successfully completed

This topic examines the relationship between gender identities and the various screen media. Independent and popular culture texts are considered in an attempt to delineate the formative role played by screen media upon notions of sexuality, desirability, maleness, and femaleness. Attention is paid to emergent forms (independent and experimental films and videos) and authors (especially women or queer directors) as students go about defining the role of screen media.

This topic aims to:

provide students with a chance to study how media from a range of genres contribute to our ideas of sexuality and gender
explore key ideas in gender and media studies, including notions of spectatorship, gaze, and identification
identify key tropes of masculinity, femininity, heterosexuality, and queerness, and to find examples of them within both commercial and independently-produced film and video
discuss films and videos by artists at the margins of the gender spectrum - women and/or queer directors - working in the area of non-commercial media

On completion of this topic students will be able to:

demonstrate an awareness of key theories of gender and sexuality within the field of screen studies
show an understanding of how generic film representations foster ideas about gender and sexuality
display a familiarity with key tropes of masculinity, femininity, heterosexuality, and queerness, and be able to identify them within both commercial and independently-produced film and video
demonstrate an awareness of non-mainstream images of sexuality and gender within non-commercial media
summarise and synthesize a body of knowledge about a specific practitioner, work, or concept
interpret, compose and sustain, at an upper-year level, a scholarly argument both verbally and in writing

Key dates and timetable

Timetable details for 2011 are no longer published.

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