Approved by UCC 9-20-07 with revisions contained in this document. From: web-form@Oswego.EDU Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 2:42 PM To: ucc@oswego.edu; loem@oswego.edu Subject: Web Form: Course Submission IP Address: 129.3.36.211 Department Chair: Bennet Schaber Department Chair Email: schaber@oswego.edu Additional Contact: Amy Shore Additional Contact Email: shore@oswego.edu Course Number: ENG 489 Course Type: New Course Course Title: Women and Screen Studies Catalog Description: Intensive study of the relationships between women and visual media, including film, television and new media. The course will introduce students to the major feminist approaches to screen studies, including theories of spectatorship, cultural histories of reception, and feminist analyses of representation. Prerequisites: ENG 286 Fl - irregular basis: Yes Semester Hours: 3 justificationforcourse: Target student population: Upper division majors in Cinema and Screen Studies, Women's Studies and related disciplines. Class size: This will be offered as a seminar course to foster high-level, peer-led conversations about theories and texts. Elective status: This is a specialty topic that can be pursued as an elective within several majors at the University. Level: This course engages with complex theories of film and gender that require a prior knowledge of cinema and/or gender and/or literary theory. courseObjectives: - Apply fundamentals of feminist film theory to the analysis of individual films and the apparatus of cinema in general. - Integrate historical contexts with the analysis of individual films and the apparatus of cinema in general. - Identify theoretical differences among approaches to the study of gender and cinema. Course Description: Since Eadweard Muybridge documented the nude female body in motion in his 1880s photographic studies, women’s relationships to the visual screen have been fraught in terms of representation, spectatorship and identity. This course will study the histories and theories of these fraught relationships by examining the subject from three directions: screen representations of women, women producers of screen media, and women’s reception of screen media. This organization allows for examination of major historical trends such as the rise of the star system, the role women played as directors and screenwriters in early cinema, and the use of screen media by women for social movements such as second wave feminism, civil rights and abortion rights. It also allows for examination of feminist media theory, including theories of the male gaze and gendered reception. Resources: No additional resources are needed for the course, although further strengthening of the holdings at Penfield and the Learning Resource Center in Cinema Studies would be an ongoing process handled through the standard procedures for placing orders. The department must continue to expand its video library. The department has faculty resources and expertise to offer this course. We have verified with computing resources and the library that we have sufficient resources to offer this course. Bibliography: Constable, Catherine. Thinking In Images: Film Theory, Feminist Philosophy and Marlene Dietrich. British Film Institute, 2006. Bhavnani, Kum-Kum. Ed. Feminism and 'Race'. Oxford UP, 2001. Butler, Alison. Women's Cinema. Wallflower Press, 2002. Kaplan, E. Ann. Feminism and Film. Oxford UP, 2000. Levitin, J. Women Filmmakers. Routeledge, 2003. Lotz, Amanda. Redesigning Women: Television after the Network Era. University of Illinois Press, 2006. Mayne, Judth. Framed: Lesbians, Feminists, and Media Culture. University of Minnesota Press, 2000. Menefee, David. The First Female Stars: Women of the Silent Era. Praeger Publishers, 2004. Pomerance, Murray. Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls: Gender in Film at the End of the Twentieth Century. SUNY Series, 2001. Ross, Karen and Carolyn M. Byerly. Women and Media: A Critical Introduction. Blackwell Publishing, 2006. Russel, Catherine, Ed. New Women of the Silent Screen: China, Japan, Hollywood. Duke UP, 2006. Smelik, Anneke, And the Mirror Cracked. Feminist Cinema and Film Theory. Macmillan, 1998, 2000, 2001. Spigel, Lynn. Welcome to the Dreamhouse: Popular Media and Postwar Suburbs. Duke UP, 2001. Stamp, Shelley. Movie Struck Girls. Princeton UP, 2000. Williams, Linda. Hard Core: Power, Pleasure, and the "Frenzy of the Visible", Expanded edition. University of California Press, 1999. Other Comments: