Seminar in Film and Society
Oklahoma State University
Fall 2004
Dr. Hugh S. Manon
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| This graduate seminar takes a critical and theoretical approach to film studies, applying concepts from psychoanalysis, Marxism, queer theory, and feminist and post-feminist studies in order to understand gendered systems of difference in popular American cinema. We will pay special attention to those directors and films that undermine the hegemony of Big Hollywood through intertextuality, detournement, and parody. Further, we will consider examples of camp, subtext, and the practice of "textual poaching"—the tactical reappropriation of mainstream representations by marginalized audiences. At the same time, our course will examine extreme cases of Hollywood's heterosexual paradigm—the melodramatic "Women's Picture," the co-option of Japanese kawaii subculture and animation, and the continuing evolution of the macho action hero. |
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week
one
8/26 OFFICE KILLER (1997)
week
two
8/31 GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES (1953)
week
three
9/7 IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE (1953)
week
four 9/14 REAR
WINDOW (1954)
week
five
9/21 THE OUTLAW (1943)
week
six
9/28 SCORPIO RISING (1964)
week
seven
10/5 XXX (2002)
week
eight
10/12 DANCE, GIRL, DANCE (1940)
week
nine
10/19 BORN IN FLAMES (1983)
week
ten
10/26 THE LONG KISS GOODNIGHT (1996)
week
eleven
11/2 THE POWERPUFF GIRLS (2002)
week
twelve
11/9 GLEN OR GLENDA (1953)
week
thirteen
11/16 MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION (1954)
week
fourteen
11/23 GUN CRAZY (1949)
week
fifteen
11/30 SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE (1982)
week
sixteen
12/7 ROSEMARY'S BABY (1968)
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