Film StudieSundergraduate Study 2013 entry

For further details on all our entry requirements, please see our Film Studies pages at: www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/degrees/film

Streatham CampuS, exeterWebsite: www.exeter.ac.uk/filmemail: hums-ugadmissions@exeter.ac.uk Phone: +44 (0)1392 724342

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BA Single HonoursFilm Studies W600 AAB-ABB; IB: 34-32

Film Studies with Study Abroad W601 AAB-ABB; IB: 34-32

BA Combined HonoursEnglish and Film Studies Q3W6 AAB-ABB; IB: 34-32

English and Film Studies with Study Abroad Q3W7 AAB-ABB; IB: 34-32

Film Studies and French WR61 AAB-ABB; IB: 34-32

Film Studies and German WR62 AAB-ABB; IB: 34-32

Film Studies and Italian WR63 AAB-ABB; IB: 34-32

Film Studies and Russian WR67 AAB-ABB; IB: 34-32

Film Studies and Spanish WR64 AAB-ABB; IB: 34-32

Flexible Combined Honours Y004 A*AA-AAB; IB: 38-34

Flexible Combined Honours with Study or Work Abroad Y006 A*AA-AAB; IB: 38-34

Flexible Combined Honours with UK Work Experience Y007 A*AA-AAB; IB: 38-34

Key information

it was the versatility of exeter’s Film Studies programme that first attracted me to the course. the mix of modules on offer, which for me have included the study of east asian and latin american cinema as well as modules on Contemporary european Stars and Film noir, means the course has truly lived up to and gone beyond my original expectations. Jake hOrne, FInaL Year FILm StuDIeS

1st for teaching and 5th for Overall Satisfaction in the national Student Survey (2011)p2nd for graduate level employment and postgraduate study ratest World class film research resources Based in the english department which is ranked 1st in the uK for world leading researchvdistinctive international approach to film analysis, history and theoryHigh rates of students graduating with a 1st or 2:1 degreeVibrant programme of events, including writers, filmmakers and others from the creative industries

p��based on the average percentage of positive responses for full service universities t�based on proportion of UK domiciled, full-time, first degree graduates in Film Studies with a known career or study destination (HESA 2009/10)vRAE 2008 based on the percentage of research categorised as 4*

Film Studies at the University of Exeter is based in one of the top rated English departments in the UK for research, teaching and student experience. The dedicated Film Studies team have a wide range of expertise across American, East Asian, European and other world cinemas and receive excellent student feedback for their teaching. You’ll also have access to outstanding resources, including the extensive holdings of The Bill Douglas Centre, the largest library on the moving image in any British university. For more details see www.exeter.ac.uk/bdc

As a student of Film Studies you’ll gain a deep and wide ranging knowledge of film as a cultural, social, industrial and global phenomenon. Over the duration of your degree you’ll be equipped with the knowledge and concepts to enable you to understand how and why cinema developed as it did, and how new moving image forms are shaping and defining film in the 21st century. The emphasis is on broad chronological and geographical coverage, a range of theoretical and conceptual approaches to film, and flexibility and choice for students.

Your studies will encompass the distinctive features and contexts of national and transnational film genres, movements and styles, such as German expressionism and Taiwan New Cinema. You will explore the aesthetics and technologies of the moving image, from pre- and silent cinema, through Hollywood classics, the special effects of blockbusters, and the forms of avant-garde film, as well as the features of cross-cultural cinema and contemporary digital screen media. You will engage with concepts of cinematic space, place and time and questions of gender, sexuality and identity. You’ll gain an understanding of the interaction between different film making contexts and industries and the directors, filmmakers and stars that worked in them.

You’ll be taught by highly qualified and experienced staff with a commitment to research-based teaching. Our research in the English department was graded as world leading in the last RAE (2008). Staff in Film Studies have recently published on: animation; East Asian cinemas; CGI; Chinese queer cinema; early cinema; epics and blockbusters; the femme fatale; genres; the Hollywood left; international stardom and its relation to European culture; Mathieu Kassovitz; Miami Vice; North African filmmakers working in France; transnational cinemas; the history of sound design; stage illusions and special effects; tie-ins and marketing; media constructions of Seattle; Taiwan cinema; and virtual actors and performance.

All our staff are members of Exeter’s Centre for Interdisciplinary Film Research (CIFR). Established in 1998 it provides a lively interdisciplinary research forum for research staff, academics, postgraduates and film practitioners. It encourages intellectual exchange between film theory, history and practice, and regularly hosts external speakers from both academia and the creative industries to give papers, presentations and workshops. This all feeds into the teaching at undergraduate level as it ensures that your lecturers are up-to-date and engaged with current developments in the subject area. Recent speakers have included filmmakers Don Boyd, Mike Figgis, Mike Leigh and Nicolas Roeg, screenwriter Andrew Davies and sound designer Tom Sayers.

For more details on the range of research and teaching specialisms covered by our Film Studies staff visit www.exeter.ac.uk/film

From the beginning of your degree you’ll benefit from a focus on your personal and professional development alongside your academic performance. You’ll be supported throughout your degree by personal tutoring and a range of study skills and employability training. You’ll also learn to work flexibly and creatively with others and engage in debate as well as exercising independent thought and judgement whilst becoming an effective independent learner.

Why study Film Studies at exeter?

The different degree programmes in film at Exeter offer you a range of choices in how you study film. The Single Honours programme allows you to specialise in the study of cinema; the modules on offer cover a diverse range of films and critical and theoretical approaches. The Combined Honours programmes allow you to divide your time 50-50 between the study of film and another subject area. The Combined Honours programme in English and Film Studies provides a firm foundation in the study of film and allows you to choose widely from the field of English literature and creative writing. The Combined Honours programme in Film and a Modern Language allows you to combine the study of film with advanced linguistic and cultural study. Film Studies can be combined with French, German, Italian, Russian and Spanish. Film may also be studied in combination with other subjects on the Flexible Combined Honours programme. For more details see the section below, or visit www.exeter.ac.uk/fch

How your degree is structuredThe degrees are divided into core and optional modules, which gives you the flexibility to structure your degree according to your specific interests. Individual modules are worth 15 or 30 credits each. Full-time undergraduates need to take 120 credits in each year. If you’re a Combined Honours student you’ll take modules worth 60 credits in Film Studies and 60 credits in your other subject in each year. Within Film Studies, in addition to the core modules, you can choose from an extensive range of options in all three years, a few examples of which are shown at the back of this brochure.

For up-to-date details of all our programmes and modules, please check www.exeter.ac.uk/film

Single HonoursBA Film Studies The Single Honours programme offers the opportunity to study an exciting range of films from different periods and international contexts; you’ll watch films from African, American, European, East Asian and other World cinemas. You’ll gain a deep and wide ranging knowledge of film as a cultural, social, industrial and global phenomenon and familiarity with different conceptual and theoretical approaches to film. The range of films studied will equip you to understand the complex histories of the medium as well as how important issues of cultural difference are raised through cinema, giving you the tools and vocabulary to take a questioning attitude to your own culture. This range is a particular strength of the programme. We encourage you to make the most of the facilities available to broaden and enhance your study of film, not just on campus but also through the lively film culture (festivals, art-house cinema, media facilities) in the city itself.

As you progress through your degree you will be able to follow your own interests by choosing from the variety of topics on offer, culminating in your own research project, a dissertation, in your final year.

Year 1 The first year familiarises you with the specialised language used in the analysis of film and the way to study film as a visual and aural art form. It gives you an introduction to the most important movements and moments in cinema history, provides an introduction to some basic areas of film theory, and begins to engage with the cross-cultural and transnational exchanges between world cinemas.

Year 2 In the second year, you will study: spectacle and its multi-media history from the 19th century to the present day; the theoretical aspects of time and place in film; and the history of American cinema. You will also be able to choose a module option on African, European or East Asian cinema.

Year 3 The third year allows you to pursue your own interests by choosing from a wide array of specialist modules, among them modules on Diasporic Cinema; Cityscapes; American Independent Cinema; Taiwan New Cinema and Beyond; The Animated Film; Beyond Sex and the City: Becoming a Woman in Contemporary Western Cinema. You will also be able to write a dissertation on a topic of your choice.

Combined Honours DegreesBA English and Film StudiesThe Combined Honours programme in English and Film provides you with a firm foundation in the study of literature and of film. Your modules aim to develop your familiarity with an historically and nationally diverse range of films and literary texts, from Chaucer to contemporary digital media. Your studies will equip you with the critical tools and vocabulary to analyse them thoughtfully and in depth. You’ll divide your time 50-50 between studying literature and studying film, and will benefit from a very wide range of module choices, such as Shakespeare’s Bodies, Imperial Encounters and Writing the Short Film. The degree is flexible so you can pursue your developing interests, either blending your study of film with that of literature, or choosing modules which offer contrasting approaches. The opportunity to work in interdisciplinary ways between literary and visual cultural texts is a distinctive aspect of the programme, and of the English department at Exeter.

Year 1 The first year will introduce you to the specialised language used in the analysis of film and to important theories and methods of analysis of film. You will also study aspects of literary history and will choose from a selection of optional modules.

Year 2 In the second year, you will study the history of American cinema alongside your choice of option modules in film, literature and creative writing.

degree programmes

Year 3 The third year allows you to specialise by choosing from a wide array of specialist modules on topics such as American Independent Cinema, Cityscapes, and Taiwan New Cinema. You will choose two film modules, an option in English literature and creative writing and you will also be able to write a dissertation on a topic of your choice. In most years there are over 20 options to choose from in film, English literature and creative writing.

For further details see: www.exeter.ac.uk/film

BA Film Studies and Modern Languages

The BA in Film Studies and a Modern Language allows you to complement a strong grounding in Film Studies with the study of French, German, Italian, Russian or Spanish language and culture, and the programme includes a year abroad.

For details of the second subject, including the language requirement and the year abroad arrangements, please refer to Modern Languages in the undergraduate prospectus or at www.exeter.ac.uk/languages

Year 1 The first year will introduce you to the specialised terminology used in the analysis of film and to key concepts relating to cinema and the nation. You will also study a compulsory language module and two modules on aspects of the foreign language culture.

Year 2 In the second year you’ll study one core module that explores questions of space, time and identity in film as well as one optional module in Film Studies. From your selected language you’ll study one compulsory language module and two modules on aspects of the foreign language culture other than film (which might mean history, literature, the visual arts or linguistics).

Year 3 Your third year will be spent abroad; there is a range of opportunities for work and study, including, in some of the languages, studying at a university with whom we have an exchange programme. For more details on the year abroad arrangements, please refer to Modern Languages in the undergraduate prospectus or at www.exeter.ac.uk/languages

Year 4 In your final year you’ll study two optional modules in Film Studies from a range that currently includes Diasporic Cinema; Cityscapes; American Independent Cinema; Taiwan New Cinema and Beyond; The Animated Film; Beyond Sex and the City: Becoming a Woman in Contemporary Western Cinema and a Dissertation. From your selected language you’ll study one compulsory language module and two modules on aspects of the foreign language culture other than film.

Details of language modules can be found at www.exeter.ac.uk/languages

Flexible Combined Honours This innovative Combined Honours scheme enables you to combine modules from a number of different fields of study not otherwise available through an existing Combined Honours programme. You can combine Film Studies with up to two other subjects from an extensive list. Throughout your degree you will be given regular support to help you choose the most appropriate pathway for you. Further information and the full list of available subjects can be found at www.exeter.ac.uk/fch

We use a variety of learning and teaching methods, including lectures, seminars, screenings, student study groups and web and IT resources. All our modules centre the learning experience on seminars, involving groups of between 10 and 20 students, typically running for two hours. Many modules are supported by weekly 50-minute lectures. Students often prepare for seminars by involvement in student study groups, which encourage collaboration and team working.

Typical contact time with academic staff is 10 hours per week, on top of which you’re expected to attend other activities such as study groups, workshop activities and film screenings. Students studying Film and a Modern Language may have a few extra hours as language study is necessarily intensive. Most of your work will be done in group and self-directed study: viewing and reading module material, writing essays or preparing material for seminar presentations. You should expect your total workload to average about 40 hours per week during term time.

We’re actively engaged in introducing new methods of learning and teaching, including increasing use of interactive computer-based approaches to learning through our virtual learning environment, where the details of all modules are stored in an easily navigable website. Students can access detailed information about modules and learning outcomes and interact through activities such as the discussion forums.

We are committed to your academic development. Through seminar work you’ll be trained in skills of critical analysis and learn to develop evidenced-based arguments. We foster your research skills through training in the use of library-based or electronic resources to research a topic.

We offer detailed feedback and essays can be discussed on a one-to-one basis with the tutor who has marked them. Study Skills tutors are also available within the department to work on specific problems in written work and assessment.

FacilitiesExeter has unique resources which make it ideally positioned to support the study of film. The Bill Douglas Centre for the History of Cinema and Popular Culture holds a wide-ranging collection of more than 70,000 film related artefacts and the collection is available for all students to use as a research and study resource. The diverse collection includes objects relating to the history of the moving image, such as optical toys, magic lantern slides and a Lumière cinematograph; film publicity such as posters from the Hollywood era to contemporary film; material on film stars such as Charlie Chaplin, Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepburn; and material on animation, particularly on Disney films. The holdings also include the papers of British producer Gavrik Losey, the director and producer Don Boyd and the producer James Mackay which include papers that relate to the work of Derek Jarman. Many of our film modules exploit these resources, giving students a highly distinctive and valuable experience of studying and researching film using primary materials, documents and artefacts.

Our Audio-Visual collection in the University library comprises over 12,000 films on DVD and video, in addition to books about and recordings of American music of all kinds. Recent investment in our learning spaces has ensured that lectures, screening and seminars take advantage of multimedia equipment.

learning and teaching

Research-inspired teachingTeaching that is inspired by research ensures lectures are up-to-date and relevant and you will benefit from access to the latest thinking, equipment and resources. All staff teach second and third year options which are linked to their own interests which include areas such as film history; gender studies; issues of identity; technology and spectacle; European, East Asian and American cinema; time, space and pacing in the cinema; and acting and performance.

Academic supportAll students have a Personal Tutor who is available for advice and support throughout their studies. There are also a number of services on campus where you can get advice and information, including the Students’ Guild Advice Unit. You can find further information about all the services in the University’s undergraduate prospectus or online at www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate

AssessmentYou’ll be assessed by a combination of exams, essays, presentations and sequence analyses (the detailed analysis of film clips). You must pass your first year assessment in order to progress to the second year, but the results do not count towards your degree classification. For three-year programmes, the assessments in the second and third years contribute to your final degree classification. For four-year programmes the assessments in the second, third and fourth years all contribute to your final degree classification.

Further details are available on our website at www.exeter.ac.uk/film

Study abroad In the College of Humanities you have the exciting possibility of spending up to one year abroad as part of your degree. Last year Exeter’s highly successful programme helped about 400 students study at one of our 180 partner universities. You could learn a new language and experience different cultures, become more self-confident and widen your circle of friends. You could also get the chance to specialise in areas that aren’t available in Exeter, and when it comes to a career, your skills and knowledge of another country will prove invaluable to many employers. This of course applies equally to overseas students coming to study at Exeter.

Further details can be found in the year abroad section of our website at www.exeter.ac.uk/humanities/undergraduate/studyabroad or the International Office website at www.exeter.ac.uk/international/study/erasmus

A degree in Film Studies can lead to a wide variety of careers including arts administration, TV production, the film industry, publishing or teaching. Some students will carry on with postgraduate study in film. The critical analysis and communication skills which you acquire uniquely equip you as a facilitator and communicator. You’ll also develop transferable skills that are highly regarded and in demand by employers in all fields. Additionally, if you choose film studies with

a language, the possibility of international opportunities in Europe and Latin America is opened up.

Many students from the department take part in the Exeter Award and the Exeter Leaders Award. These schemes encourage you to participate in employability related workshops, skills events, volunteering and employment which will contribute to your career decision-making skills and success in the employment market.

Exeter has an excellent reputation with graduate recruiters and our students and graduates compete very successfully in the employment market. Many employers target the University when recruiting new graduates.

For further information about what the Employability Service offers at Exeter visit www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/employability

Careers

Examples of the destinations of our recent graduates:OccupationsPress Office and Communications Assistant // Media Marketing Officer // Production Assistant // Runner for a Production Company

EmployersWalker Media // Technicolour Creative // Mediacom // The Actors Centre

Examples of further study followed by our graduates:• MA Arts and Cinema Studies, Columbia University, New York• MA Production Film and Television, University of

Bournemouth• Diploma Practical Film Making, Metropolitan Film School• MA Media and Film, University of Sussex• Film Directing, International Film School of Paris• MA Film Studies, University of Exeter

You can find a summary of our typical entry requirements on the inside front cover of this brochure.

The full and most up-to-date information about Film Studies is on the undergraduate website at www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/degrees/film and we strongly advise that you check this before attending an open day or making your application. Some programmes require prior study of specific subjects and may also have minimum grade requirements at GCSE or equivalent, particularly in English Language and/or Mathematics.

We make every effort to ensure that the entry requirements are as up-to-date as possible in our printed literature. However, since this is printed well in advance of the start of the admissions cycle, in some cases our entry requirements and offers will change.

If you are an international student you should consult our general and subject-specific entry requirements information for A levels and the International Baccalaureate, but the University also recognises a wide range of international qualifications. You can find further information about

academic and English language entry requirements at www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/international

For information on the application, decision, offer and confirmation process, please visit www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/applications

For up-to-date details of all our programmes and modules, please check www.exeter.ac.uk/film

Year 1 modules

module details

American Independent Cinema

Cityscapes

Diasporic Cinemas

Dissertation

Film and Literature: Textual Transformations

Taiwan New Cinema and Beyond

The Animated Film

Beyond Sex and the City: Becoming a Woman in Contemporary Western Cinema

Year 3 (or Year 4 if you are studying Film Studies and a Language)

the following are a selection of options currently available in Film Studies:

Introduction to Film Analysis

Introduction to Film History

Major Debates in Film Theory

Transnational Cinemas

Year 2 modules

Cinescapes: Time, Space and Identity

European Film Noir

Introduction to African Cinemas

Introduction to East Asian Cinemas

Shots in the Dark: American Film in Profile

Spectacular Attractions: Cinema and Sensation

entry requirements and applying

Year 1Introduction to Film Analysis

This module gives you detailed practice in developing and using a vocabulary with which to analyse and interpret how films work. You’ll study a number of films in detail, investigating the roles played by editing, framing, sound and narrative structures. The module will then move on to introduce you to the detailed study of a single film.

Introduction to Film History

This module provides an outline history of film from the 1890s to the 1960s. Particular attention will be paid to the international nature of film as well as to a number of key developments, movements and trends in countries such as Britain, Italy, France, Japan and Germany.

Major Debates in Film Theory

This module introduces you to a series of major debates in film theory; from realism and digital cinema to authorship, genre and stars. The primary aims are to familiarise you with these theoretical approaches, to situate them in the broader development of film studies as an academic discipline and to demonstrate how these theories might be applied to analyse film texts in new and different ways.

Transnational Cinemas

This module introduces key concepts relating to cinema and the nation, with an emphasis on transnational filmmaking. It begins by rethinking the concept of ‘national cinema’ and goes on to introduce concepts such as ‘transnational cinemas’, ‘world cinemas’ and ‘accented cinema’, focusing on issues of border-crossing, diasporas and cross-cultural negotiations in terms of exhibition and distribution.

Year 2Cinescapes: Time, Space and Identity

This module builds on some of the debates addressed in Major Debates in Film Theory. It uses films from a variety of geographical, cultural and historical locations as a means of exploring the complex relationship between film theory and film practice. It draws on a series of philosophical concepts and theoretical debates that have emerged as key areas of enquiry in film studies. It uses these theoretical approaches to analyse questions of space and setting; the representation of time and its relationship to memory and history; and issues of ethnicity, sexuality, gender and the body.

European Film Noir

This module offers a rich insight into the development of European film noir and examines the historical development and national specificity of noir in three national cinemas: Germany, France and Britain. It also analyses the ways in which European film noirs have been profoundly affected, in various ways, by American film noir in a complex two-way process that ranges from imitation, to dazzling originality, to complex hybridity. The module will also re-examine classical Hollywood film noir taking into account its own European genealogy, asking to what extent American film noir can itself be seen as part of a European tradition and inheritance.

Introduction to African Cinemas

This module will analyse a selection of African films, focusing predominantly on filmmakers from North and West Africa. You will explore how the selected films offer revealing insights into issues affecting contemporary African societies: the politics and legacy of decolonisation; the construction of national and pan-African identities; globalisation; and questions of gender and sexuality, as well as problematising the notion of ‘African cinema' itself.

Introduction to East Asian Cinemas

This module introduces the different new wave cinemas emerging from East Asia since the 1980s, including the fifth and sixth generation directors from China, the Taiwan new cinema, Hong Kong new wave, Japanese and South Korean contemporary cinemas. It looks at the social, cultural and political contexts for negotiating issues ranging from history, nationalism, geopolitics and globalisation to urban culture, gender and sexuality.

Shots in the Dark: American Film in Profile

This module offers you a rich insight into the development of American film, ranging across the diverse formations that have enabled it to become an immensely popular and influential source for both art and entertainment. You’ll look closely at Hollywood, but also consider the important realms of independent filmmaking and art cinema, which have broadened the scope of cinematic innovation and representation.

Spectacular Attractions: Sensation and Cinema

This module will familiarise you with debates surrounding the concept of spectacle. The module requires you to make use of the massive collection of cinema and other media texts and artefacts preserved at the Bill Douglas Centre as it examines the history, technology, exhibition and consumption of film through close analysis of its enduring preoccupation with spectacular imagery and other effects.

Film Studies modulesPlease note that availability of all modules is subject to timetabling constraints and that not all modules are available every year. For up-to-date details of all our programmes and modules, please check www.exeter.ac.uk/film

Year 3American Independent Cinema

This module examines the practice of American independent filmmaking as it has developed in recent decades. In particular, it interrogates the meaning of independence as an aesthetic, institutional, and political category of filmmaking practice; analyses some of the key films that have influenced the aesthetic development and critical reception of independent filmmaking; and explores the range of aesthetic and narrative possibilities offered by the commercial and cultural parameters of independent filmmaking practice.

Cityscapes From stark depictions of urban poverty to spectacular visions of futuristic metropolises, the city and city dwellers have been persistent subjects of twentieth-century media. This module explores a broadly chronological series of representations of the city, considering exemplary texts especially from the cinema, but also from literature and popular fiction, graphic art, photography and television.

Diasporic Cinemas

The term diaspora refers to the displacement of an ethnic group of people from a shared homeland. Since the 1980s, as Third World and post-colonial filmmakers have become increasingly visible in the West, diasporic cinema has emerged as a dynamic and contested area of research. On this module you will study a variety of key films that fall under the rubric of diasporic cinema. You will apply a variety of theoretical approaches to your analysis of these films and consider how issues such as the myth of return, multiculturalism and globalisation are addressed in these films, as well as how questions of gender, ‘race’ and sexuality are represented in relation to the diasporic subject.

Film and Literature: Textual Transformations

Literature and film have been entwined in a rich and complex relationship since early cinema adopted narrative fiction as its dominant mode. The vast majority of the cinematic fictions that cinemagoers experience have their origins in a literary form, such as scripts, short stories, novels and plays. Despite their common narrative currency, literature and film are very different media, with distinct experiences for readers and viewers and with largely separate traditions of academic study. This module engages with theoretical perspectives from both film and literary studies, and uses these perspectives to pursue four strands of inquiry: heritage, authorship, genre and questions of cultural prestige.

Taiwan New Cinema and Beyond

This module aims to familiarise you with the key works of the Taiwan New Cinema movement and its legacy beyond Taiwan and into the twenty-first century. It will explore not just the work of an array of film directors, but also the texts and the condition of their production, distribution, exhibition and consumption within a transnational framework, all of which impinge on the question of ‘national’ film historiography. It will examine, in particular: the socio-political background of the emergence of the Taiwan New Cinema movement, its key directors and their works, the international context of their reception and the transnational nature of their production, and its legacy to date.

The Animated Film

This module will introduce you to the study of animated film, promoting analysis of animation in its cultural, historical, political and aesthetic contexts. Through the discussion of key films and correlative writings, a range of approaches to the techniques, styles, meanings and history of animated cinema will be featured. Animation has often been thought of as a subsidiary or genre of cinema, but this module will demonstrate that it offers distinctive modes of expression, incorporates work by a number of important artists, and has attracted its own discourses and critical methodologies in a prolific body of scholarship on the subject.

Beyond Sex and the City: Becoming a Woman in Contemporary Western Cinema

This module will interrogate contemporary films from Hollywood and European cinema that map out a series of female life stages. It will examine how those different female life stages, from girlhood to old age, can be represented in ways that may or may not conform to received ideas about femininity. In order to do so, it will draw upon the theories of postfeminism, which study the manifestation of feminism in popular culture today, exploring in particular ideas about the sexualisation of mainstream culture; a growing emphasis on empowerment and choice; the question of natural sexual differences; women’s negotiation of ‘traditional’ feminine roles, such as motherhood; and a preoccupation with the body beautiful.

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