124262 KO Critical Media Analysis (2014W)

Between the ambitious Femme Fatale and the reluctant Tough Guy: Gender fantasies and the question of identity in Film Noir

6.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 12 - Anglistik

Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung

Dear Students!
Please be aware that attendance in the first session is mandatory for all registered students. If you are absent that day without being excused you will lose your seat in the course, which will be given to a student on the waiting list.

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max. 30 Teilnehmer*innen

Sprache: Englisch

Lehrende

Ranthild Salzer

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    Mittwoch
    08.10.
    14:00 - 16:00
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Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung

Film noir offers a rich canvas for analysis and deconstruction of constructed Western gender identities. When it comes to sexuality and gender, an uncanny sense of paranoia and anxiety lies at the core of Film Noir.

Deconstructing the gender politics it prescribes for its archetypes: the femme fatale, the cynical detective, the villain and the unwilling hero/antihero is as fascinating as it is timeless for understanding the stylized repetitions that make up gender identities.

Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel

In addition to the primary texts, students will also be required to read secondary materials. They will be asked to hold short presentations in class, hand in written assignments and take a final written test.
All the articles and excerpts from books will be provided online via MOODLE.

Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab

This CMA class will familiarize its participants with the concept of the (male) gaze, the idea of gender as normative fiction and stylized repetition, as well as the politics of Othering as they appear in the gender arena.

Students will understand how to decode film noir for the hegemonic, negotiated and oppositional readings it offers to its audiences today.

Through in-class presentations and group discussions students will try to find answers to questions such as:

What stylistic devices do films noir use to encode femininity and masculinity?
How do films noir reveal possible shortcomings of patriarchal power structures?
How do these films treat different ethnicities and sexualities at that time considered Other?

Prüfungsstoff

Literatur

Movie List:
Mildred Pierce. Michael Curtiz, 1945.
Out of the Past. Jacques Tourneur, 1947.
Dead Reckoning. John Cromwell, 1947.
The Big Heat, Fritz Lang, 1953.

Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis

Studium: UF 344, BA 612, BEd 046
Code/Modul: UF 4.2.5-426, BA07.3; BEd 08a.2, BEd 08b.1
Lehrinhalt: 12-4260

Letzte Änderung: Mi 09.09.2020 00:22