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.


Thursday, November 7, 2013

New Ratings System Against Gender Bias?

Wanted to share this article I just read, about how Sweden will be implementing a new ratings system to measure gender equality onscreen...definitely provides some food for thought! Does this actually measure bias? Is the ratings system itself flawed? Or is this the necessary and pragmatic first steps we are seeing towards more inclusive and equal cinematic representations...?


 http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/06/swedish-cinemas-bechdel-test-films-gender-bias?CMP=fb_gu
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