BODIES AND REPRESENTATIONS
Week 5. Screening Sex: Pin-Up, Noir, and the Soviet Musical Comedy
Session 1: Buszek, Maria “Introduction: Defining/Defending the ‘‘Feminist Pin-Up’’,
Harvey, Sylvia “Woman’s Place: The Absent Family of Film Noir”
Clips in class: Showgirl in Hollywood by Mervin LeRoy (1930), The Killers by Robert Siodmak (1946)
Session 2: Circus by Grigorii Alexandrov (1936)
Week 6. The Male Gaze and the Female Gaze
Session 1: Mulvey, Laura, "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema"
"Looking at the past from the present: rethinking feminist film theory of the 1970s"
Clips in class: Vertigo by Hitchcock (1958), Cléo from 5 to 7 by Agnes Varda (1962)
Session 2: Wings by Larisa Shepit’ko (1966)
Mikhailova, Tatiana “Flight without Wings: The Subjectivity of a Female War Veteran in Larisa Shepit’ko’s Wings’
Week 7. Fashioning Looks
Session 1: Rabine, Leslie “A Woman’s Two Bodies: Fashion Magazines, Consumerism, and Feminism,” pp. 59-75
Session 2: Vainshtein, Olga "Female Fashion, Soviet Style: Bodies of Ideology"
Blogpost on “Bodies and Representations” due on Scalar