Abridged Schedule (see syllabus on Moodle for full version)
Week 1: INTRODUCTIONS, CLASS POLICIES, CLASS EXPECTATIONS
Screenings: The Cabbage Fairy / Falling Leaves / Suspense
Week 2: EARLY CINEMA AND PRE-CODE HOLLYWOOD (1929-1934)
Screening: Baby Face (Dir: Alfred Green, USA. 1933)
Week 3: EARLY CINEMA AND PRE-CODE HOLLYWOOD (1929-1934)
CLASSICAL HOLLYWOOD AND THE WOMAN'S FILM
Screening: Written on the Wind (Dir: Douglas Sirk, USA. 1956. 99 min)
Week 4: THE MALE GAZE
Screening: Psycho (Dir: Alfred Hitchcock, USA, 1960. 109 min)
Week 5: FEMALE SPECTATORSHIP AND AUTHORSHIP
Screening: Daughters of the Dust (Dir: Julie Dash. USA, 1991, 113 min)
Week 6: THE FEMALE GAZE
Screening: Fish Tank (Dir: Andrea Arnold. UK, 2009. 123 min)
Week 7: THE NEW WAVE WOMAN AND COUNTER CINEMA
Screening: Le Bonheur (Dir: Agnès Varda. France, 1965, 90 min)
Week 8: PORTRAYING MASCULINITY
Screening: Beau Travail (Dir. Claire Denis, France, 1999. 92 min)
Week 9: REVENGE/EXPLOITATION
Screening: Promising Young Woman (Dir: Emerald Fennell, UK, 2017, 113 min)
Week 10: THE MONSTROUS-FEMININE
Screenings: Suspiria (Dir: Dario Argento, Italy, 1977. 99 min) and Suspiria (Dir: Luca Guadagnino, Italy/USA, 2018, 153 min)
Week 11: THE FEMME FATALE
Screening: Fatal Attraction (Dir: Adrian Lyne, USA. 1987. 119 min)
Week 12: QUEER GIRLS
Screening: The Watermelon Woman (Dir: Cheryl Dunye. USA, 1997. 90 min)
Week 13: PERFORMING GENDER
Screening: A Fantastic Woman (Dir: Sebastián Lelio. Chile, 2017, 104 min)
Week 14: THE MODERN WOMXN
Screening: The Assistant (Dir: Kitty Green. USA, 2019, 87 min)