|
Week
1
Feb.
18
|
Introductions;
bell hooks video
|
Films
& Due Dates
|
|
Week
2
Feb.
25
|
READ
1:
(1) bell hooks, Reel to Real: “Introduction: Making Movie
Magic”; (2) Tahvildaran, Chpt. 2 “Film, Aesthetics &
Politics” (25 – 48)
|
MULAN
|
|
Week
3
Mar.
4
|
READ
2:
(1) Tahvildaran, Chpt. 1 “The (In)Visibility of
Difference” (1 - 24) (2)
”A
feminist "fantasia" – almost” http://www.theory.org.uk/ctr-rol2.htm
|
Paper
Due (required)
|
|
Week
4
Mar
11
|
READ
3:
(1) Simone de Beauvoir, Introduction, The Second Sex
|
BOYS DON’T CRY
|
|
Week
5
March
18
|
READ
4: On
Being Different, chpt. 2 & 9 (on reserve)
Documentary:
“The Brandon Teena Story” and “The Celluloid Closet”
|
Paper
Due
|
|
Week
6
Mar
25
|
READ
5:
Rapping, Media-tions, Introduction & Contested Feminisms
(5-21 and 234 – 286)
Gender
Politics: Bending as Resistance to Patriarchal Norms; Brainstorming
Skits
|
|
|
Week
7
April
1
|
READ
6:
Rapping, Media-tions, “Hollywood’s Families” (68 –
113)
|
SMOKE SIGNALS
scripts
due
|
|
Week
8
April
8
|
SKITS:
Exploring the Gender Politics of Our Lives
|
Paper
Due
|
|
April
15
|
SPRING
BREAK
|
Spring Break
|
|
Week
9
April
22
|
READ
7:
Rapping, Media-tions, “Hollywood’s Women” (22 – 67)
|
REAL WOMEN HAVE CURVES
|
|
Week
10
April
29
|
Preparation
for Gender Bending Ball
|
Paper
Due
|
|
Week
11
May
6
|
Gender
Bending Ball
|
|
|
Week
12
May
13
|
READ
8:
Rapping, Media-tions, “Hollywood’s Men” (114 – 137)
|
BOYS IN THE HOOD
|
|
Week
13
May
20
|
READ
9:
Tahvildaran Essay
|
Paper
Due
|
|
Week
14
May
27
|
READ
10:
TBA
|
CROOKLYN
|
|
Week
15
June
3
|
READ
11:
bell hooks, “Crooklyn: The Denial of Death” (on reserve)
|
Paper
Due
|
|
FINAL
June
19
|
Final
Sharing Circle
|
Take
Home Final Due
|