Universität Wien

124183 VK BEd 08b.3: VK Cultural Studies and Language Education (2025W)

From Buffy Summers to Katniss Everdeen - Third Wave Feminisms and Female Action Heroes in the classroom

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 12 - Anglistik
Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung
Moodle

An/Abmeldung

Hinweis: Ihr Anmeldezeitpunkt innerhalb der Frist hat keine Auswirkungen auf die Platzvergabe (kein "first come, first served").

Details

max. 25 Teilnehmer*innen
Sprache: Englisch

Lehrende

Termine (iCal) - nächster Termin ist mit N markiert

It is mandatory for all correctly registered students to be present during our first class session. Registered students who are absent without being excused, will lose their spot in the seminar.

  • Donnerstag 16.10. 18:15 - 19:45 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Donnerstag 23.10. 18:15 - 19:45 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Donnerstag 30.10. 18:15 - 19:45 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Donnerstag 06.11. 18:15 - 19:45 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Donnerstag 13.11. 18:15 - 19:45 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Dienstag 18.11. 10:15 - 11:45 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Donnerstag 20.11. 18:15 - 19:45 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Donnerstag 27.11. 18:15 - 19:45 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Donnerstag 04.12. 18:15 - 19:45 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Donnerstag 11.12. 18:15 - 19:45 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Donnerstag 18.12. 18:15 - 19:45 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Donnerstag 08.01. 18:15 - 19:45 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Donnerstag 15.01. 18:15 - 19:45 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Donnerstag 22.01. 18:15 - 19:45 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Donnerstag 29.01. 18:15 - 19:45 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19

Information

Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung

The seminar sets out to de-naturalize gender constructions that inform recent tv shows, comic series and films featuring action-packing females.
Main focus will be on Joss Whedon's Buffy the Vampire Slayer (film, tv series and comics) and Suzanne Collins' Hunger Games (movies adaptations only). The class will encourage students to compare characters like Buffy and Katniss to other popular action heroines such as Marvel's Black Widow, Jessica Jones and Elektra.

The format sets out to de-naturalize gender constructions that inform current tv shows, comic series and films featuring action-packing females.
The female action heroine enacts both femininity and masculinity on the screen and on the page, depending on the medium in which she appears.

Juggling the demands the hetero-patriarchy continues to make on women while also revealing femininity as a masquerade, bestows a unique place within US-American popular cultures on the female action hero.
As these characters demand to be seen as active subjects on screen as well as on the page, they
both undermine and uphold what traditional film studies concepts like the male gaze demand of female characters.

Bringing gender studies, queer studies, film and comics studies together, this course focuses on how female action heroes function as both feminist role models and as eroticized objects advertised to straight male audiences.

Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel

Regular attendance (a maximum of two absences is possible throughout the semester) and active participation in classroom discussion, in group work and on Moodle; regular preparation of assigned reading material; lesson plan/expert session presentation; written tasks (research proposal and final analysis).

Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab

- Regular attendance and active participation in classroom discussion and on Moodle: 20%
- Completion of group tasks (reading secondary texts, discussing and preparing of guiding questions for group discussions): 10%
- Expert input/presentation in one session: 10%
- Research proposal with annotated bibliography: 15%
- Final analysis: either final paper (c. 3500 words, excl. bibliography) OR BEd thesis (c. 6500-7000 words, excl. bibliography): 45%

Points must be collected in all of these categories. Students must attain at least 60% overall to pass this course.

Marks in %:
1 (sehr gut): 90-100
2 (gut): 80-89
3 (befriedigend): 70-79
4 (genügend): 60-69
5 (nicht genügend): 0-59

Prüfungsstoff

Contents covered throughout the semester. This is an interactive course (“prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung”): in addition to completing written tasks as well as handing in assignments on time, participants are expected to read set texts, prepare each session thoroughly, and actively participate in class throughout the semester. There will be no in-class written exam.

Literatur

Joss Whedon. Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Season 1-7.
Gary Ross. The Hunger Games.
Francis Lawrence.Catching Fire.
Francis Lawrence. Mockingjay Part 1 &2.

Villarejo, Amy. Film Studies - The Basics.
Wharton, David, Teaching Analysis of Film Language.
Stopford, Richard. Teaching Feminisms.
Kreider, Jodie. Buffy in the Classroom.

Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis

Studium: BEd 046/407
Code/Modul: BEd 08b.3
Lehrinhalt: 12-4686

Letzte Änderung: Mo 03.11.2025 11:06