Gender on the screen gender actor, actress, film, movie, wife, director, son, cinema, scene, role on film reference. Womens studies is an academic field that draws on feminist and interdisciplinary methods in. Undergraduate and graduate students can take film courses on a wide range of topics, taught by faculty across the university. We draw from amy allens conception of power as the interrelated triad of domination power. The few studies that exist are full of what ifs and calls for further study, specifically with children and young adults. Ihhist 222 marriage and family in western civilization. Gender and womens studies western michigan university kalamazoo mi 490085365 usa 269 3872510. Gender stereotypes persist in films on a worldwide scale. Empirical studies show that gender stereotypes affect the way people attend to, interpret, and remember information about themselves and others. Film studies at western invites students to critically engage with the art of cinema, and to explore the global and historical conditions that have made cinema one. Women, gender and sexuality studies library guides at.
Gender and womens studies academics western michigan. Film studies courses film studies western university. Gender and sexuality studies major gender and sexuality studies. We take an intersectional approach to explore gender, race, ethnicity and social class in films about women. Jensen the discussion of womens rights is often subsumed into the broader consideration of human rights, but when it comes to understanding the experiences of the worlds most vulnerable. Catching fire this past weekend, the new york film academy decided to take a closer look at women in film and what, if any, advancements women are making. Womens and gender studies university of western cape. Women, gender, and sexuality studies western washington. Mass protests led by women of liberia mass action for peace played a major role in encouraging peace talks, and eventually putting an end to the war.
Western films were popular in the time of the silent films but much of their success was lost when films with sound appeared in the 1920s. Explores the changing roles of women to the western and offers new. For additional wmstl files now available on the web, see the wmstl file collection. This list is by no means exhaustive, so please do contact us if you know of other journals that should be added. Serious criticism of the western film began in the 1950s with appreciative essays by robert warshow and andre bazin, both of whom identified the genre as, in bazins phrase, the american film par excellence although inattentive to cinema, henry nash smiths groundbreaking study virgin land. Perhaps not surprisingly, the initial introduction of women into western cultural narrative coincides with the introduction of transgressive women.
Films for an intro to sexuality and gender studies course. In light of the recordbreaking opening of the femaleled action film hunger games. Women, gender, and sexuality studies is committed to the project of social justice. Kelvin smith library research guides subjects gender studies gender studies. The program is an interdisciplinary academic program of study that takes as its focus the history, development, and. Wanda barbara loden is a wanderer in a dreary rust belt town, drifting from bars to motels, jobs to jobs and men to men. Wmus gender and womens studies program offers excellent preparation for pursuing a professional or graduate degree in such areas as social work, counseling or law. Gender studies is a field for interdisciplinary study devoted to. This course applies insights from disability studies to western political thought. The women, gender, and sexuality studies minor college. This page offers a list of academic journals that engage with gender, sexuality and feminist studies, organized by the different fieldsdisciplines to which they relate.
For more than a decade, western films were ridiculed and scorned at, although all this changed in 1939, when director john ford made stagecoach, starring john wayne. Search guides in this subject area search the full text of guides automatically filtered by subject. The american west as symbol and myth 1950 suggested that the emerging field of american studies. Abstractwhile feminist film scholars have considered what makes a film feminist, we explore this question from a feminist sociological perspective with an emphasis on power and women in film. Western washington universitys women, gender, and sexuality studies program draws on interdisciplinary research and teaching to analyze the formation of sex, gender, and sexuality as they intersect with structures of power including, but not limited to. Bordin discusses the break in the continuity between gender and the body by. Kanopy is an ondemand streaming video service for educational institutions that provide students and faculty access to a large collection of films, such as the criterion collection, pbs, hbo, first run features, bbc, and documentary educational resources. Art history and communication studies journal about frequency ada. Film studies at western university western university.
The film documents the role of women to end the liberian civil war 19892003. It includes womens studies concerning women, feminism, gender, and politics, mens studies and queer studies. Gender discourse in eastern european sf cinema jstor. A course description for the special crosslisted sections of hist 101, western civilizations to 1648.
The course will have a special emphasis on the development of and changes to concepts of gender, sexuality, and the body in addition to social. Shooting a woman comparative study of gender roles in. Women and gender studies home search this guide search. This film possesses facets which complicate our modern sensibilities of racial and sexual politics, which is par for the course of most films of the era. World culturesglobal screens crosslisted with spanish 2700g and clc 2700g america, the middle east, africa and asia, this course aims to expose students to a wide range of questions and debates around culture and identity, while also relating these matters to circulating discourses about the global.
Read our latest issue and learn about our program, including its faculty, courses, students, and alumni. Equally, the studies of soviet, russian, and eastern european sf cinema tend to neglect its. In the western, gender divisions tend to be mapped onto archetypal oppositions between civilization and wilderness, posing a dilemma for the male hero, while the female characters are onedimensional embodiments of the. However, these disciplines sometimes differ in their approaches to how and why gender is studied.
Western libraries library guides subjects women, gender and sexuality studies women, gender and sexuality studies. Case western reserve offers many opportunities for film study. To view the updated gender inequality in film infographic released in 2018, click the banner above. Understanding and addressing the role of gender in the experiences of refugees mie a. Our mission is to broaden womens and mens knowledge of gender dynamics, globally and historically, with an emphasis on issues central to womens lives. Wanda barbara loden is a wanderer in a dreary rust belt town, drifting from bars. It is the required introductory course for students taking the womens and gender studies major. Who we are our aim western washington universitys women, gender, and sexuality studies wgss program draws on innovative interdisciplinary research and teaching to analyze the formation of sex and gender as they intersect with structures of power including, but not limited to, sexuality, race, class, ethnicity, nationality, religion, age, and ability. Gender studies is an interdisciplinary field that investigates how gender is embedded in social, cultural. Gender studies is an interdisciplinary academic field devoted to analysing gender identity and gendered representation. The campus and surrounding area institutions provide a rich environment for watching and discussing films frequently asked questions about film studies at cwru. Often in cowboy films, we see women either victimized or punished for venturing out as the cowboys do, serving as a warning to women. Kate grantham, phd candidate, womens studies and feminist research, western university western university school of graduate and postdoctoral studies sgps. Gender roles in western societies have been changing rapidly in recent.
Stagecoach is a classical hollywood western 1939 which explores the dynamics across gender and class of nine strangers aboard a stagecoach, as they come across the elements, warring indians, and distrust of each other. The women, gender, and sexuality studies program offers students an interdisciplinary approach to the study of the formation of sex, gender, and sexuality as they intersect with structures of power including, but not limited to, race, class, ethnicity, nationality, religion, age, and ability. This book casts a critical eye on the representation of native americans in the western film since the genres beginnings. Journals in gender, sexuality and feminist studies igsf. Gender studies research guides at case western reserve. A postgraduate programme offering honours and masters degrees was established in 1995 by a cohort of feminist scholars in diverse disciplines, an undergraduate programme and doctoral degree was introduced in 2000 and. They start to follow us from the our earliest days in the toy store and continues to influence us when. Arts social impact gender stereotypes persist in films on a worldwide scale only a third of all speaking parts are played by women in 11 international regions, usc study finds.
Gender was not the only aspect of imbalance in these films. In classic western films, cowboys wander while women stay. Gender studies department of english dietrich college. From earliest villages to european colonization 305 rosemary a. Film studies research guides at western carolina university. Joyce gender and the development of modern society 14001750 17 gender history, southeast asia, and the world regions framework 323. In general, western movies have been harshly criticized for their depiction of. The western and film studies westerns movie, cinema, role. We evaluated the apparent ethnicity as characters as well. In addition, it identifies sources that focus on gender issues, sexuality, women of color, the role of women in the family, feminist theory and. Films for an intro to sexuality and gender studies course this file contains suggestions for films that would be effective for classroom use in an introduction to sexuality and gender studies course.
Western washington universitys women, gender, and sexuality studies program draws on interdisciplinary research and teaching to analyze the formation of sex, gender, and sexuality as they intersect with race, class, ethnicity, nationality, religion, age, and ability. List of books and articles about western films online. The program for the study of women and gender examines gender, race, class and sexuality as important and. Wjec gce as film studies stuart grenvilleprice fm1 making meaning macro element genre contrast and create an opposition to the detective in his sober suit. In june, prof lawson and womens studies student ola osman headed to liberia, africa to conduct field research. Majors with strong academic records and an interest in pursuing honors should contact the honors coordinator typically the director of undergraduate studies in their junior year and identify a faculty member who will serve as thesis adviser. An interdisciplinary course, it covers approaches used in literary criticism, history, philosophy, political science, sociology, anthropology, psychology, film studies, cultural studies, art history, and religion.
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