BODIES AND REPRESENTATIONS
Week 6 and 7: The Male Gaze and the Female Gaze
Thu, Oct 3rd
Session 1: The Male Gaze
Mulvey, Laura, "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema"
Mulvey, "Looking at the past from the present: rethinking feminist film theory of the 1970s"
Clips in class: Interview with Laura Mulvey, River of no Return (1954), 1, 2,
Laura Mulvey's Riddles of the Sphinx
Tue, Oct 8th
Session 2: The Female Gaze
Cléo from 5 to 7 by Agnes Varda (1962)
Roger Ebert, Review of Cléo from 5 to 7
Thu, Oct 10th Fall Break
Tue, Oct 15th
Session 3: The Female Gaze
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 9. Fashioning Looks
Thu, Oct 17th
Rabine, Leslie “A Woman’s Two Bodies: Fashion Magazines, Consumerism, and Feminism,” pp. 59-75
Bartlett Djurdja FashionEast : The Spectre That Haunted Socialism,
read p.14-26, look through the pictures in Chapter 1
Further reading in case you want to focus on fashion bloggers and need ideas:
Perthuis, de Karen, Findlay, Rosie "How Fashion Travels: The Fashionable Ideal in the Age of Instagram"
Blogpost on “Bodies and Representations” on Blackboard Friday, Oct, 25th
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- Weekly Readings Tatiana Efremova
