Course Description

At the core of the course is the question how feminism has become a demonized and ridiculed “F-word” in an age when issues of gender and sexuality are at the center of constant, often explosive political debates. These debates often connect media representation and political representation but tend to do so in simplistic ways that bypass or distort decades of sophisticated feminist theory and practice. We will trace back such representations through the decades around case studies that encompass film, video, television and new media practices. The case studies come from the United States and beyond, taking into full account the global interconnectedness of media production and consumption as well as the transnational travel of feminist ideas. The main goal of the course is to evaluate how useful feminist thinking is to understanding the relays between media and political representation; and to develop a lasting critical apparatus to analyzing the politics of gender and sexuality in the media.


Monday, October 7, 2013

Teaching Project: Gender and Nation


I would like to form a teaching group who are interested in the topic the Gender and Nation. As you might see after finishing this week readings, the relationship between Nation and Gender has a wide spectrum to work on. Some questions you might think of to generate your own ideas are: How is gendered citizenship? How film and media present the issues of gendered citizenship? In what context? For what reasons? More specifically, you can take Yuval-Davis’s article as a platform for your journey. For example, Yuval-Davis states that women usually symbolize the nation; they are required following “appropriate behaviour”. Her point can lead us to a plenty of possibilities to work on. For instance, we can examine how this mode works in Western films or in films of minor cultures. Does the representation of women in the relationship with their nation subvert the tradition of filmmaking in the particular film industry or the myth of genre that you care for? This is just a very starting point for us to have an idea of the project. Hopefully, we can develop both our teaching project and our own essays on this topic when we sit down and talk about it.
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  1. UnknownOctober 8, 2013 at 11:55 AM

    Hi Quiha. I'm interested in your topic. Maybe we can talk more about it after class or something?

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