film 165A [W05]

UCSC/FILM + DIGITAL MEDIA DEPARTMENT
FILM 165A FILM/VIDEO/GENDER
WINTER 2005
Tuesday + Thursday/ 6:00-8:40pm/ Communications Studio C


	Professor: Irene Gustafson [831] 459 1498 / Comm 125 click here to email Office Hours: Wednesday 2-4pm and by appointment		T.A.: Eric Stanley click here to email Office Hours: T.A.: Mary Weaver click here to email Office Hours: Tues 1-2pm [Havajava/Oakes]

	[syllabus last updated: 18 February 2005]

What is gender and what is its relationship to cultural texts? This class explores the construction of and representation of gender through close examination of various film, video, and written works. We will consider gender identity not in isolation, but in relation to history and to other constituting experiences of race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, and nationality.

Our class time will typically include:
• Two weekly screenings and lectures
• Each class period will begin with a lecture that contextualizes the week’s screenings and readings.
• We’ll take 10 minutes after each screening to reflect and write notes individually about the film. This does not preclude note-taking during screenings. In fact, you are strongly encouraged to take notes during films

REQUIREMENTS FOR RECEIVING CREDIT

• Attendance is mandatory; punctuality is required. Three unexcused absences, excessive lateness,and/or excessive absences at screenings will result in a NO PASS.

• You are expected to inform the Instructor of any emergency situations that require your absence from class, and you are strongly encouraged to keep in touch with the Instructor about any absences.

• Late papers WILL affect your grade.

• In order to receive credit for the class, students must turn in all assignments

Grade Breakdown:

• Attendance + Participation

15%

• Paper 1

20%

• Paper 2

35%

• Paper 3

30%

REQUIRED READING

REQUIRED:

Course Reader [available at the Bay Tree Bookstore]

SCHEDULE

jump to week:

10,

......Tuesday January 4
Introduction and Admissions
What is “gender”? what is “film/video”?

......Thursday January 6
Methodologies and Approaches
Screening: Pumping Iron II [USA, 1985, George Butler, 107 min.] VT7274
Reading due:

Rick Altman, ”General Introduction: Cinema as Event”

......Tuesday January 11
Screening: scenes from Pumping Iron II
Reading due:

Teresa de Lauretis, “The Technology of Gender”

......Thursday January 13
Screening: Naked [UK, 1994, Mike Leigh, 131 min.] VT4253
Reading due:

Kate Bornstein, “Welcome to your Gender Workbook”, “Solving the Gender Puzzle” and “Who’s on Top?”

......Tuesday January 18
Screening: The Circle [Iran, 2000, Jafar Panahi, 91 min.] DVD758
Reading due:

David Walsh, “Interview with Jafar Panahi”

......Thursday January 20

• PAPER 1 DUE [at the beginning of class]
Screening: scenes from Naked and The Circle
Reading Due:

Judith Butler, “Imitation and Gender Insubordination”

......Tuesday January 25
Screening: Deliverance [USA, 1972, John Boorman, 109 min.] DVD1010, VT274
Reading due:

Carol Clover, ”Getting Even”
Jonathan Rosenbaum, “Is the Cinema Really Dead?”

......Thursday January 27
Screening: Beau Travail [France, 1999, Claire Denis, 90 min.] DVD1363
Reading due:

Richard Dyer, “The White Man’s Muscles”
Jonathan Rosenbaum, “Some Vagaries of Distribution and Exhibition”

......Tuesday February 1
Screening: scenes from Beau Travail
Reading due:

Jonathan Rosenbaum, “Isolationism as a Control System”

......Thursday February 3
Screening: Boys Don’t Cry [USA, 1999, Kimberly Pierce, 116min.] DVD126, VT255
Reading due:

Judith Halberstam, “Introducing Female Masculinity” + “Transgender Butch: Butch/FTM Border Wars...”

......Tuesday February 8
Screening: Ecstasy Unlimited [USA, 1985, Laura Kipnis, 60 min.] VT3393
Reading due:

Laura Kipnis, “Ecstasy Unlimited”

......Thursday February 10
Screening: Happiness [France, 1965, Agnes Varda, 84 min.] VT3707
Reading due:

Laura Kipnis, “Adultery”

.....Tuesday February 15
• PAPER 2 DUE [at the beginning of class]
Screening: Music Videos: Michael Jackson
Reading due:

Kobena Mercer, “Monster Metaphors: Michael Jackson’s Thriller”

......Thursday February 17
Screening: Music Videos: David Bowie, Outkast, etc
Reading due:

Marjorie Garber, “The Transvestite Continuum: Liberace-Valentino-Elvis”

......Tuesday February 22
Screening: Paris is Burning [USA, 1992, Jennie Livingston, 76 min.] VT2081
Reading due:

bell hooks,”Is Paris Burning?”
Judith Butler,”Gender is Burning: Questions of Appropriation and Subversion”

......Thursday February 24
Screening: clips from music videos, Paris is Burning
Reading Due:

Coco Fusco,”Who’s Doin’ The Twist: Notes Towards a Politics of Appropriation”

......Tuesday March 1
Screening: One Way or Another [Cuba, 1974, Sara Gomez, 78 min.] VT94/Fi440
Reading due:

B Ruby Rich, “Prologue. O Brave New World” and “One Way or Another: Sara Gomez and the Cuban Experience”
Jose Munoz, “Performing Disidentifications”

......Thursday March 3
Screening: Southern Comfort [USA, Kate Davis, 2000, 90 min.]
Reading due:

C. Jacob Hale, "Consuming the Living, Dis[Re]Membering the Dead in the Butch FTM Borderlands

C.Jabob Hale "notes"

10.

......Tuesday March 8
Screening: clips from Southern Comfort
Reading due:

http://sandystone.com/hale.rules.html

......Thursday March 10
Screening: Pumping Iron [USA, 1976, George Butler, 85 min.]

Final Project due Monday March 14th by noon