ENGL2627 - Reading Sexuality

Semester 2, 2011  |  Credit Points: 6

Coordinator: Kate Lilley
Phone: +61 2 9351 2426
Email: kate.lilley@sydney.edu.au

Description

This unit explores the relationship between gender, sexuality, cultural production and interpretation in cinematic texts through detailed, historicised readings. Questions to be explored include the relationship between film and psychoanalysis, representations of work and everyday life, sexuality and crime, camp, secrecy, and display.

Assessments

1x2000wd essay (40%), 1x2hr (2000wd) take-home exam (40%) and tutorial participation (20%)

Textbooks

Laura (dir. Preminger)
Vertigo (dir. Hitchcock)
The Children's Hour (dir. Wyler)
Valley of the Dolls (dir. Robson)
Dog Day Afternoon (dir. Lumet)
Mulholland Drive (dir. Lynch)
Todo sobre mi madre (dir. Almodovar)
Notes on A Scandal (dir. Eyre)

Classes

1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week

Prerequisites

12 Junior credit points of English

Prohibitions

ENGL2027

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