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.


Wednesday, December 4, 2013

Geena Davis Institute

First of all, a round of applause to everyone!
I was really amazed by all the teaching lessons, and I thought everyone did great! :)

On another note, one thing that I thought was worth posting about before the blogs are being taken off is to go back to a website that Prof. Imre was going to briefly show us in class. One of the earlier classes, I noticed Prof. Imre pulled up a website called 'Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media'. & It stood out to me because I actually work with a professor on campus, and her published research is part of the research of the Geena Davis Institute. The findings from the research study are rather fascinating, and I recommend everyone to take a look at it. We conduct a content analysis study on the Top Grossing Films of the United States yearly, coding variables measuring gender in relation to nudity/revealing clothings, in relation with occupation, and many more other variables. We even analyze what's behind-the-camera of every Top Grossing Film.

Here are two links to the PDF files of Key Findings & Executive Summaries that was published on the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media:

1) Gender Roles & Occupations: A Look at Character Attributes and Job-Related Aspirations in Film and Television

2) Gender Disparity On Screen and Behind the Camera in Family Films
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