Screening Sex and Gender explores how film and television may influence individual and societal understandings and expectations of sexuality and gender.
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4 courses
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On successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
Interrogate the socio-cultural and ideological contexts of how gender and sexuality are represented in film and television, historically and contemporarily.
Critically analyse, at an advanced level, gender and sexuality in film and television texts.
Evaluate critical discourses surrounding gender and sexuality in screen texts at a capstone level.
Articulate cohesive arguments that synthesise appropriate scholarship in written, oral and visual forms.
