film 165A W2011

UCSC/FILM + DIGITAL MEDIA DEPARTMENT
FILM 165A FILM/VIDEO/GENDER
WINTER 2011
Tuesday + Thursday/ 4:00-6:30pm/ Communications Studio C


	Professor: Irene Gustafson [831] 459 1498 / Comm 125 click here to email Office Hours: Thursday 1-2pm and by appointment		Teaching Assistant: Maggie Owsley click here to email Office Hours: TBA

	[syllabus last updated: 4 March 2011]

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. As this course does not include a separately scheduled discussion section, this is an opportunity for you to: voice your thoughts, ask questions, and demonstrate your engagement with course materials. 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 (due January 25th)

25%

• Paper 2 (due February 22nd)

30%

• Paper 3 (due March 16th, in front office)

30%

REQUIRED READING

REQUIRED:

Course Readings are available here as downloadable PDF files. Readings should be done by the date on which they appear on the syllabus.

SCHEDULE

jump to week:

10,

......Tuesday January 4
Introduction and Admissions
What is “gender”? what is “film/video”?
Screening: Pumping Iron II [USA, 1985, George Butler, 107 min.] DVD7915

......Thursday January 6th
Methodologies and Approaches
Screening: scenes from Pumping Iron II
Reading due:

Judith Lorber, “Beyond the Binaries"

......Tuesday January 11th
Screening: Orlando [UK, Sally Potter, 1992, 93 min.) DVD 788
Reading due:

Teresa de Lauretis, “The Technology of Gender”

......Thursday January 13th
Screening: scenes from Orlando
Reading Due:

Rick Altman, ”General Introduction: Cinema as Event”
Anne Fausto-Sterling, “Dueling Dualisms”

......Tuesday January 18th
Screening: Naked (UK, 1994, Mike Leigh, 131 min.) DVD4310
Reading due:

Carol Watts, “Mike Leigh’s Naked and the Gestic Economy of Cinema”

......Thursday January 20th
Screening: scenes from Naked
Reading due:

Anne Fausto-Sterling, “That Sexe Which Prevaileth” and “Gender Systems”

......Tuesday January 25th
PAPER 1 DUE [at the beginning of class]
Screening: The Circle [Iran, 2000, Jafar Panahi, 91 min.] DVD758

......Thursday January 27th
Screening: scenes from The Circle
Reading due:

Jonathan Rosenbaum, “Some Vagaries of Distribution and Exhibition”

......Tuesday February 1st
Screening: Deliverance [USA, 1972, John Boorman, 109 min.] DVD1010, VT274
Reading due:

Carol Clover, ”Getting Even”

......Thursday February 3rd
Screening: Deliver [USA, 2008, Jennifer Montgomery, 98 min.]
Reading due:

http://www.incite-online.net/montgomery.html

Judith Butler, "Imitation and Gender Insubordination”

Butler handout (word document)

......Tuesday February 8th
Screening: Beau Travail [France, 1999, Claire Denis, 90 min.] DVD1363
Reading due:

Richard Dyer, “The White Man’s Muscles”
Jonathan Rosenbaum, “Isolationism as a Control System”

......Thursday February 10th
Screening: scenes from Beau Travail
Reading due:

Eve Sedgwick, “Introduction” from Between Men

......Tuesday February 15th
Screening: Boys Don’t Cry [USA, 1999, Kimberly Pierce, 116min.] DVD126, VT255
Reading due:

Boys Don't Cry-- Screen "reports and debates" Screen, Volume 42, number 2 (2001)

Judith Halberstam, "An Introduction to Female Masculinity"

......Thursday February 17th
Screening: scenes from Boys Don’t Cry
Reading due:

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

......Tuesday February 22nd
PAPER 2 DUE [at the beginning of class]
Screening: Music Videos: Michael Jackson

http://www.gagajournal.blogspot.com/
http://bullybloggers.wordpress.com/2010/03/17/you-cannot-gaga-gaga-by-jack-halberstam/

......Thursday February 24th
Screening: Music Videos: David Bowie, Outkast, Lady GaGa, etc DVD1351
Reading due:

Marjorie Garber, “The Transvestite Continuum: Liberace-Valentino-Elvis”
Kobena Mercer, “Monster Metaphors: Michael Jackson’s Thriller”

......Tuesday March 1st
Screening: Paris is Burning [USA, 1992, Jennie Livingston, 76 min.] DVD3096
Reading due:

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

......Thursday March 3rd
Screening: clips from music videos, Paris is Burning
Reading Due:

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

10.

......Tuesday March 8th
Screening: Southern Comfort [USA, Kate Davis, 2000, 90 min.] DVD300
Reading due:

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

......Thursday March 10th
Screening: scenes from Southern Comfort
Reading due:

Jose Munoz, “Performing Disidentifications”

FINAL PAPER IS DUE WEDNESDAY MARCH 16TH, FDM FRONT OFFICE

note: the office is open 9-12/1-4pm. No late papers accepted

LAPTOP / MOBILE TECHNOLOGY USE

Laptops can be a useful tool in the service of teaching and learning, however, I ask that you use them productively and respectfully.
A few common sense rules:

1. Always set up your laptop computer before the beginning of class. Setting up the computer and booting it up can take a few minutes depending on what applications are set to open at startup. Turn off all other mobile devices before lecture begins
2. Disable sound
3. During lecture and classroom discussion, you should not be connected to network resources. To do so invites many distractions - web surfing, email, chats, etc. Chatting or emailing during class is no more acceptable than talking on a cell phone during class time. Additionally, your networked screens are distracting to those sitting near and behind you

If you are found to be doing anything other than note-taking (or sanctioned network activity) you will be asked to leave the class immediately and will be marked as absent for that day.

I reserve the right to further legislate laptop use in their classes. For example, you may be asked to close your computer during screenings or be asked to sit in the first two rows of the class if you are actively using your laptop.

ACADEMIC INTEGRITY

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/