Week 1 |
Focus |
11 August |
14 August |
Class viewing: Extracts and trailers from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
Diamonds are Forever (1971)
Fight Club (1999)
Selected advertisements:
Folger’s Coffee (1960s)
“Walk in Fridge” (Heineken, 2009) |
Orientation to the module |
Introduction to the course, course objectives, and assignments. Activity on traditional gender roles and traits.
Selection of contemporary readings:
Abbot, D. (2013, May 16). Demos Twentieth Birthday lecture delivered by Diane Abbott MP.
O’Sullivan, J. (2013, May 21). The masculinity debate: No wonder men stay out of it. The Guardian.
Penny, L. (2013, May 16). We need to talk about masculinity. The Guardian.
Weiss, B. (2013, December 28). Camille Paglia: A Feminist Defense of Masculine Virtues. The Wall Street Journal.
Building film analysis skills: Mise en scène and cinematography |
Building film analysis skills: Editing and sound
What are Socratic questions?
Modelling a class analysis:
Connell, E.W. (1987) Gender and power: Society, the person and sexual politics. Oxford: Polity Press. 183-189.
Brief lecturer presentation
Normative masculinity
The Oedipus Complex
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Week 2 |
Focus: Hegemonic masculinity |
18 August |
21 August |
Class viewing: North by Northwest (1959)
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Planning/Drafting
Identifying, understanding, and assessing claims
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Interactive viewing of North by Northwest (1959) using http://todaysmeet.com
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Group analysis:
Cohan, S. (1997) Masked men: Masculinity and the movies in the fifties. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press. 1-11, 16-33.
Supplementary reading:
Cavell, S. (1986). “North by Northwest”. In Deutelbaum, M., & Poague, L. A Hitchcock reader. Ames: Iowa State University Press. 249-264.
Brief lecturer presentation:
Richard Dyer on stars.
Laura Mulvey and the male gaze.
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Week 3 |
Focus: The commodification of the male body |
25 August |
28 August |
Class viewing: Extracts from The Terminator Series
Thelma and Louise(1991)
Fight Club (1999)
Selected advertisements:
007 Aftershave (1960s)
“Launderette” (Levi’s 1985)
“Gardener” (Diet Coke, 2013)
“Concept” (Calvin Klein, 2013)
“Hottest Bean Curd Seller” (2015) |
Planning/Drafting
Understanding methods, frameworks, and/or critical approaches |
Group analysis:
Chopa-Grant, M. (2013) “I’d fight my dad”: Absent fathers and mediated masculinities in Fight Club. In Shary, T. Millennial masculinity: Men in contemporary American cinema. Detroit: Wayne State University Press. 85-99.
Brief lecturer presentation
Neale, S. (1983, 2000) Masculinity as spectacle: Reflections on men and mainstream cinema. In Kaplan, E. A. Feminism and film (pp. 253-264) New York: Oxford University Press.
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Group analysis:
Rehling, N. (2009) Extra-ordinary men: White heterosexual masculinity in contemporary popular cinema. Lanham: Lexington Books. 85-110.
Supplementary reading:
Jeffords, S. (1994) Hard bodies: Hollywood masculinity in the Reagan era. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press. 24-63.
Brief lecturer presentation
Postmodernism and masculinity |
Week 4 |
Focus: Postmodernity and the Rogue Hero |
1 Sept |
4 September |
Class viewing: Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
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Planning/Drafting
Understanding methods, frameworks, and/or critical approaches |
Interactive viewing of Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) using http://todaysmeet.com
Readings in preparation for seminar 8:
Gauntlett, D. (2008; 2002). Media, gender and identity: An introduction (2nd; New; 2 ed.). New York, NY: Routledge. 98-124.
Howson R. (2006) Challenging hegemonic masculinity. New York; London: Routledge. 55-79
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Group analysis:
Kord, S. & Krimmer, E. (2011) Contemporary Hollywood masculinities: Gender, genre, and politics (1st ed.). New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 159-177.
Class Exercise on Writing an Annotated Bibliography, using the texts covered in class. Group work during which groups compile an annotated bibliography entry based on class readings/film covered in class. |
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