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124642 VO BEd 04.2: Cultural Theories and Popular Culture (2023S)

Screening the Male: Reading Male Bodies and Masculinity Enactments in Comics, Film, and TV

3.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 12 - Anglistik
Moodle

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Language: English

Examination dates

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

A bit of important info:

This lecture series is planned as an on-site and in-person lecture.

However, every lecture session will be recorded via u:stream - but not live-streamed - and will be uploaded to Moodle after every session.

Please keep in mind that it may take up to 48 hrs or more until the recorded sessions are available via Moodle.

  • Thursday 09.03. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
  • Thursday 16.03. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
  • Thursday 23.03. 16:45 - 20:00 Audimax Zentrum für Translationswissenschaft, Gymnasiumstraße 50
  • Thursday 30.03. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
  • Thursday 20.04. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
  • Thursday 27.04. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
  • Thursday 04.05. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
  • Thursday 11.05. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
  • Thursday 25.05. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
  • Thursday 01.06. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
  • Thursday 15.06. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
  • Thursday 22.06. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03

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Aims, contents and method of the course

Masculinity as a gender practice is best understood as ‘a vague set of ideas, demands, stories and images about being a man’. Sociologist Raewyn Connell clarifies that “no masculinity arises except in a system of gender relations”(Connell, 1995). She identifies a hierarchy of masculinities: from its hegemonic version to its complicit, subordinate and marginalized varieties. Straight, white men usually occupy the hegemonic position whereas gay men have to content themselves with the subordinate and men of color with the marginalized position.

Students will get an introduction into Raewyn Connell’s masculinity hierarchies as well as Michael Kimmel’s concept of American manhood and Robert Staples’ and bell hooks’ take on masculinity and race in America. This course encourages students to take a critical look at naturalized assumptions about masculinities. Comics and films addressed in class will be scanned for depictions of masculinities they offer to their audiences, their representations of male bodies, male sexuality and masculine stereotypes.

Assessment and permitted materials

Written Exam (50% Multiple Choice, 50% essay, ca. 500 words)

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

The benchmark for passing the written exam is at 60%
Grades in %: 1 (very good): 90-100%, 2 (good): 80-89.99%, 3 (satisfactory): 70-79.99%, 4 (pass): 60-69.99%, 5 (fail): 0-59.99%

Examination topics

Entire lecture content incl. lecture slides and obligatory course reading.

Reading list

Michael Kimmel. Manhood in America: a cultural history. Free Press: NY, 1996.
---. The History of Men: Essays on the History of American and British Masculinities. New York: SUNY UP, 2005.
Connell, R.W. Masculinities. Polity Press: Cambridge, 2005.
Anderson, Eric. Inclusive Masculinity: the changing nature of masculinities. London: Routledge, 2009.

Association in the course directory

Studium: BEd 046 / 407
Code/Modul: BEd 04.2
Lehrinhalt: 12-4642

Last modified: Th 12.10.2023 13:47