ENGL2627 - Screening Sexuality

Semester 2, 2013  |  Credit Points: 6

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

Description

This unit explores the relationship between cinema and sexuality in classic films through detailed, historicised readings. Questions to be investigated include the erotics of cinematic genre and form; the sexual politics of representation and spectatorship; stardom, scandal and cult appreciation; cinema and sexuality as technologies of modernity; cinema, sexuality and pedagogy.

Assessments

1x1500wd word essay (40%), 1x2000wd take-home exercise (40%), 1x500wd tutorial presentation (10%), tutorial participation (10%)

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 seminar/week

Prerequisites

18 junior credit points including ARHT1002 or ENGL1025 or ENGL1026 or ENGL1011 OR 18 senior credit points from English or Australian Literature

Prohibitions

ENGL2027

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