film 165A [W06]

UCSC/FILM + DIGITAL MEDIA DEPARTMENT
FILM 165A FILM/VIDEO/GENDER
WINTER 2006
Tuesday + Thursday/ 7:00-9:40pm/ 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.: Niki Akhavan click here to email Office Hours: Tuesday 6-7pm, ground floor Science Library

	[syllabus last updated: 18 January 2006]

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

10%

• Paper 1

25%

• Paper 2

35%

• Final Project

30%

REQUIRED READING

REQUIRED:

Course Reader [CR] available at the Bay Tree Bookstore and on reserve at McHenry Library

SCHEDULE

jump to week:

10,

......Thursday January 5
Introduction and Admissions
What is “gender”? what is “film/video”?

......Tuesday January 10
Methodologies and Approaches
Screening: Pumping Iron II [USA, 1985, George Butler, 107 min.] VT7274
Reading due:

[CR] Rick Altman, ”General Introduction: Cinema as Event”

......Thursday January 12
Screening: scenes from Pumping Iron II
Reading due:

[CR] Teresa de Lauretis, “The Technology of Gender”

......Tuesday January 17
Screening: A Question of Silence (Holland, 1983, Marleen Gorris, 92 min.) VT522
Reading due:

[CR]Mary C. Gentile, “Feminist or Tendentious? Marleen Gorris’ Question of Silence”
[CR]Kate Bornstein, “Welcome to your Gender Workbook”

......Thursday January 19
Screening: The Circle [Iran, 2000, Jafar Panahi, 91 min.] DVD758
Reading due:

[CR] interview with Jafar Panahi
[CR] Judith Butler, “Gender Regulations”

......Tuesday January 24
Screening: scenes from The Circle and A Question of Silence
Reading Due:

[CR] Kate Bornstein, “Solving the Gender Puzzle” and “Who’s on Top?”

......Thursday January 26

PAPER 1 DUE [at the beginning of class]
Screening: Deliverance [USA, 1972, John Boorman, 109 min.] DVD1010, VT274
Reading due:

[CR] Carol Clover, ”Getting Even”

......Tuesday January 31
Screening: Beau Travail [France, 1999, Claire Denis, 90 min.] DVD1363
Reading due:

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

......Thursday February 2
Screening: scenes from Beau Travail
Reading due:

[CR] Eve Sedgwick, “Introduction” from Between Men

......Tuesday February 7
Screening: Boys Don’t Cry [USA, 1999, Kimberly Pierce, 116min.] DVD126, VT255
Reading due:

[CR] Judith Halberstam, “Introducing Female Masculinity” + “Transgender Butch”

......Thursday February 9
Screening: scenes from Boys Don’t Cry
Reading due:

[CR] Jacob Hale, “Consuming the Living, Dis[re]membering the Dead in the Butch/FTM Borderlands

......Tuesday February 14
Screening: Michael Jackson: video greatest hits : history. DVD1351
Reading due:

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

......Thursday February 16
Screening: Music Videos: David Bowie, Outkast, etc
Reading due:

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

......Tuesday February 21

PAPER 2 DUE [at the beginning of class]
Screening: Paris is Burning [USA, 1992, Jennie Livingston, 76 min.] VT2081
Reading due:

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

......Thursday February 23
Screening: clips from music videos, Paris is Burning
Reading Due:

[CR] Coco Fusco,”Who’s Doin’ The Twist: Notes Towards a Politics of Appropriation”
[CR] Philip Brian Harper,”’The Subversive Edge’: Paris is Burning, Social Critique, and the Limits of Subversive Agency”

......Tuesday February 28
Screening: One Way or Another [Cuba, 1974, Sara Gomez, 78 min.] VT94/Fi440
Reading due:

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

......Thursday March 2

Guest: Jacob Estes/ UCSC alumni talks about his film, Mean Creek

http://www.meancreekmovie.com/

Screening: Border Stasis [USA, Guillermo Gomez-Peña 1998, 26 min.] VT6771
Nest of Tens [USA, Miranda July, 2000, 27 min.]
Reading due:

http://fuentes.csh.udg.mx/CUCSH/Sincronia/neustadt.html

http://www.pochanostra.com/

http://www.mirandajuly.com/

http://www.joanie4jackie.com/

10.

......Tuesday March 7
Screening: Southern Comfort [USA, Kate Davis, 2000, 90 min.] DVD3003
1 page synopsis/description of FINAL PROJECT due [include: a discusssion of form and reference to key concepts + readings]

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

......Thursday March 9
Screening: Murderball [USA, Henry Alex Rubin and Dana Adam Shapiro, 2005, 85 min.] DVD3004

......T March 14
Screening: Pumping Iron [USA, 1976, George Butler, 85 min.]

......TH March 16
Screening: FINAL PROJECTS

FINAL PROJECT due Monday March 16th, beginning of class

A note on academic integrity, plagiarism, and intellectual work:

At the university we are continually engaged with other people’s ideas: we read them in books, hear them in lecture, discuss them with our friends, engage with them on a personal level, and incorporate them into our own writing. As a result, it is very easy to blur the lines between our own intellectual work and the work of others. But, it is important that we give credit where it is due. Plagiarism is using others’ ideas and words without clearly acknowledging the source of that information.

To avoid plagiarism, you must give credit whenever you use
• another person’s idea, opinion, or theory;
• any facts, statistics, graphs, drawings—any pieces of information—that are not common knowledge;
• quotations of another person’s actual written words and/or spoken words; or
• paraphrase of another person’s spoken or written words.

The UCSC “Official University Policy on Academic Integrity for Undergraduate Students” can be found at:
http://www.ucsc.edu/academics/academic_integrity/undergraduate_students/