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Quotes • Maccoby & Jacklin • Drew Barrymore • Camille Paglia • John P.Scott • Norbert Elias • Dennis Miller |
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• V, ch. 9, 'The biology of violence.
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• 2001:
Hal
Sings "Daisy and Ape
to Space • Lawnmower Man: The
Lawnmower Man • Hollow Man •
The Birds: Jungle
Gym Scene •
Wolf • Wolfen
•
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
• Eleanor Maccoby & Carol Jacklin - 'Summary and conclusions' from The Psychology of Sex Differences (Stanford, 1974), 349-355.
• Erving Goffman -' Genderisms,' Psychology Today, Aug. 1977, 19-23.
• Simone de Beauvoir - `Introduction' from The Second Sex (Vintage,1974), xv-xxiv. • (optional) Shakespeare - The Merchant of Venice (Portia's courtroom scene).
Viewing(Remember to type in "cs" and the password given
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• Victor/Victoria
• Tootsie
I. GENDER
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Quotes •L. Tiefer •Norman Elias •Chrissie Hynde • Karen Horney • Client in psychoanalytic therapy |
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2. Psychological Theories: Learning and Development
(1.31)
Readings
• Carol Gilligan - 'Woman's place in man's life cycle,' Harvard
Educational Review, 1979.
• Erving Goffman - `Genderisms,' Psychology Today, Aug. 1977, 19-23.
• William Pollack - `Inside the world of boys: Behind the mask of masculinity' from: Lost Boys: Rescuing our Sons from the Myths of Boyhood (Holt 1998), 3-19.
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• Something Wild • Tootsie • Forces of Nature • Rebecca: and 40 Love scene • We Remember Marilyn • See also Forces of Nature
Readings
• Janet Sayers -`Social learning,' from Sexual
Contradictions (Routledge 1992)
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• River Runs Through It: Plot
Summary • Shine: Plot
Summary • Boys Don't Cry: Bar
Room Brawl •
Boyz 'n the Hood •
Bill Elliot (Stephen Daldry 2000)
Readings
• Lawrence Kohlberg & Dora Ullian -
'Stages in psychosexual roles.'
Optional:
John Broughton - `Women's rationality and
men's virtues,' Social Research, 1983.
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• Alice in Wonderland • Tumbleweeds • Welcome to the Dollhouse: Rape Threat and Rape Threat Part 2
3. Psychoanalytic Theories: Freud and Lacan
(2.7)
Readings
• Sigmund Freud - `On the consequences
of some anatomical differences between the
sexes,' from: S.E.
• Karen Horney - 'The flight from womanhood:
the masculinity - complex in women as viewed by men and women' from: Feminine
Psychology (Norton 1967), 54-70.
Optional:
• Janet Sayers - `Freudian theory,' from: Sexual
Contradictions.
•John Hesley & Jan Hesley - `What's Eating Gilbert Grape?' from Rent Two Films and Call Me in the Morning (Wiley 1998), 157-160.
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OEDIPAL COMPETITION/MALE: • Shane
• The
CryingGame
OEDIPAL COMPETITION/FEMALE: • Boogie Nights: Dirk's
Bedroom • The
Grifters
OEDIPAL SOLUTION: IDENTIFICATION/MALE: •
Boyz 'n the Hood
OEDIPAL TRIUMPH/MALE: • What's Eating Gilbert Grape: Gilbert's
Family and Store
in Trouble and Cheating
Heart • Little
Odessa
INVERSE OEDIPAL: • What's Eating Gilbert Grape: Gilbert's
Family and Store
in Trouble
• Boogie Nights: Dirk's
Bedroom •
The CryingGame
• Pee-Wee's Playhouse Phallic/Contraceptive • Rock Star: Revolt of the Creative
Readings
• Jacques Lacan - `The meaning of the phallus,' from Juliet Mitchell
& Jacqueline Rose (eds.), Feminine Sexuality (Norton 1983).
• Janet Sayers - `Lacanian perspectives' from Sexual Contradictions (Tavistock, 1986), 79-96. • (optional) William J.Richardson's paraphrase of the Lacan article• (optional) SM: `Asserting phallic mastery,' and `The limits of Lacan,'SM, 83-103 & 89-94.
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• Robocop: Auto-Cop Robo's Birthday Shot in the Dark • Lawn Dogs • High Art: Change of Plans and Lucy's Apartment • sex, lies and videotape: Love sex talk • Capadonna MTV Video
LACAN: •
Parenthood
MINOR: • Zed
and Two Noughts • Evil Dead 2 • Army of Darkness
HOMMELETTE/THE REAL: • Prospero's Books: Living
World and Visceral/Fetal
PHALLIC/MALE: • Parenthood
• Santa Sangre: Oedipal
Mother and Mother/Son
Fusion and Phallic
Fantasy
CASTRATION: • Blood of the Poet • Life
Without Dick
PHALLIC/FEMALE: • Fantastic Voyage • Mulan
• Blue Steel: Officer
in Action and The
Gun • sex, lies and videotape: #3 Camera Turnaround • Ma
Vie en Rose: Dressing
Up and Masquerade
and Heterosexual
Classroom and Pam
and Ben and Boys
Will be Boys
4. Jung and Object Relations Theory
(2.14)
Readings
• Carl Jung - `The syzygy: animus and anima,'
from The Portable Jung (Viking, 1971),148-162.
• Susan Pollack & Carol Gilligan - '
s of violence in TAT test stories,' Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1982, 42 (1), 159-167.
Viewings (Remember to type in "cs" and the password
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• Something
Wild (Abducted by Luln) • Julia • Victor/Victoria
•
Reading
• Gillian Skirrow - Hellivision (gender and fantasy in video
games. In Colin McCabe (ed.), High Theory/Low Culture (Manchester,
1986), 115-142.
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• Alien • Army of Darkness • Fantastic Voyage • PeeWee's Playhouse Orifices/Homoerotic
Readings
• Nancy Chodorow - 'Oedipal asymmetries and heterosexual knots,'
Social Inquiry, 1976, 4, 454-468.
Optional:
•Janet Sayers - 'Post-Freudian psychoanalysis' from Sexual Contradictions
(Tavistock 1986), 33-78.
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• Tumbleweeds • The Joy-Luck Club • Boogie Nights: Dirk and Mother • Exotica • High Art: Change of Plans and Lucy's Apartment • sex, lies and videotape • Before and After •
II. VIOLENCE (2.21)
5. Aggresion and Gender
(2.21)
Readings
•William Shakespeare - Othello, Act , Scene 2.
•Timothy Beneke - `Rapist: Chuck' from Men on Rape (St Martins, 1982), 71-81.
•William Pinar - `The gender of violence' from The Gender of Racial Politics and Violence in America (Lang 2001), 815-824.
•Dana Crowley Jack - `The puzzle of aggression' from Behind the
Mask: Destruction and
Creativity in Women's Aggression (Harvard 1999), 11-51.
•Jean Baker Miller & Janet Surrey - `Rethinking women's anger'
in Judith Jordan (ed.), Women's Growth in Diversity (Guilford 1997), 199-216.
•Ginger Goldner, Peggy Penn, Marcia Sheinberg & Gillian Walker - "A feminist relational view of battering" (from `Love and violence: gender paradoxes in volatile attachments' in Mary Gergen & Sara Davis (eds.), Toward a New Psychology of Gender, pp.575-601 (Routledge, 1996), pp.575-579
Optional:
•Review "JFa" material
•Royster murder reports, New York Times
•John Broughton - Interview re `Buffy the Vampire Slayer,' 12/98. Albert Bandura & Gerald Walters - from Social Learning and Development
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FEMALE RAPE: • Clockwork Orange • The Accused • Welcome
to the Dollhouse: scene
one and scene
two •
Basic
Instinct • Marnie: Marital
Rape • Kika • Saturday Night Fever • Dr Jekyll &
Mr Hyde (1.12, actually disfigurement, 1.19) •
MARITAL RAPE: • Marnie: Marital
Rape •
DATE RAPE: • Basic
Instinct • Telling Lies in America (attempt) •
MALE DOMINATION: • Diabolique (Clouzot 1954) •
MURDER: • Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde (1.35) • Berlin Alexanderplatz
• Secret Rapture •
LEARNING: • Hope and Glory •
MALE RAPE: • Deliverance: Control/Behind
and Homosexual
Rape • Lawrence of Arabia •
Boys
Don't Cry • Poison • Prince of Tides •
ABUSE: • What's Love Got To Do With It • Godfather 2 Marnie:
Red
Flashback • Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde (1.06) • My Fair Lady
•
AGRESSION: • Girl Interrupted •
Something Wild (Demme) • Spellbound • Thelma & Louise:
Pulled
Over and On
the Edge and Explosion
• What Planet Are You From? • Girlfight
VIOLENCE: • Raging Bull • Buffy The Vampire Slayer
III PREJUDICE (2.28)
• Langston Huges
• Disneyana catalog
Quotes
6.Sexism, Heterosexism and Homophobia
(2.28)
Readings
•`Homophobia and the fear of unmanliness,' SM, 16-22.
•Abelard - `Historia calamitatum' from The Letters of Abelard and Heloise (Penguin 1974) 65-68.
•Laurie Mandel & Charol Makeshift - `Heterosexism in middle
schools,' in Nancy Lesko (ed.), Masculinities at School (Sage 2000), 75-103.
•Wilhelm Reich - `The institution of compulsory marriage as the basis of contradictions in sexual life,' from Sex-Pol (1936), 34-39.
•Adrienne Rich - `Compulsory heterosexuality and lesbian existence' Signs, 1980, 5, 631-660, reprinted in Ann Snitow (ed.), Powers of Desire (Monthly Review Press, 1983), 177-205..
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SEXISM: • La Strada • Lulu (Depardieu) • Reservoir Dogs • Celebration • The Sweet Life (Leigh) • Journey to the Center of the Earth • Thelma & Louise: Pulled Over and On the Edge and Explosion • What Planet Are You From? • Wayne's World • Nurse Betty • Beyond the Clouds • Short Cuts •
PATRIARCHY: • Forbidden Planet: Plastic Educator
CODEPENDENCE: • All in the Family • Keeping the Faith • Nurse Betty • Bridget Jones'Diary • Texas Chainsaw massacre • Faster Pussycat•
REVERSE SEXISM: • Great Expectations • Disclosure •
CODEPENDENCY: • All in the Family • Keeping the Faith • Nurse Betty • Bridget Jones' Diary •
HOMOPHOBIA: • American Beauty: Next Door Neighbors, Going to School, Colonel's Confession • Priscilla Queen of the Desert • Boys Don't Cry • Before Night Falls • Looking for Mr Goodbar • African American public TV program on Homophobia •
REICH: • Visit to Organon •
IV. SEXUALITY (3.7)
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Quotes • Judith
Butler
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7. Femininity
(3.7)
Readings
• Stella Bruzzi - `Mannish girl: k.d. lang from cowpunk to androgyny,'
in Sheila Whiteley (ed.), Sexing the Groove: Popular Music and Gender
(Routledge 1997), 191-206.
• Judith Halberstam - `Transgender butch,' from Female Masculinity
(Duke 1998), 141-173.
• Judith Butler - `Imitation and gender insubordination', from Diana
Fuss (ed.), Inside/Out: Lesbian Theories/Gay Theories
(Routledge, 1991), 637-648.
• Dredgerestant (drag king): www.dredking.com.
Optional:
• Diane Diasse - Hothead Paisan; SM, 134-167.
• Review: Daniel Clowes - Ghostworld; Homophobia, SM, 16-22.
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FEMALE ASSERTIVENESS: • Welcome to the Dollhouse: The Dinner Table and Spitball •
FEMALE AGGRESSION: • Lara Croft, Tomb Raider
HOMEOEROTIC: • Steel Magnolias • Thelma & Louise: Pulled
Over and On
the Edge and Explosion
• Faster Pussycat •
HOMOSOCIAL: • Ghost World: Imitating TV Dance and Art/Film •
LESBIAN: • Heavenly Creatures • Relax, It's Only Sex (P.J. Castellaneta, 1999) • Chasing Amy • High Art: Change of Plans and Lucy's Apartment • Mercy • Boys Don't Cry • Being John Malkovich • Bound • Sirens • Friends and Neighbors (Ben Stiller/Catherine Keener) • Go Fish • It Wasn't Really Love (Sadie Bening) •
HOMOSEXUALITY AND DEATH: • High Art: Change of Plans and Lucy's Apartment • Bound • Mercy •
HOMOEROTICISM AND VIOLENCE: • Thelma & Louise: Pulled Over and On the Edge and Explosion •
BUTCH: • Aliens • The Killing of Sister George • Touch of Evil • Caged Heat • Bound
MENSTRUATION: • Dirty Laundry • Tumbleweeds • Carrie • Life Without Dick •
8. Masculinity
(3.14)
Readings
• Khaula Murtadha-Watts - `Theorizing urban black masculinity construction
in an African-centered school,' in Nancy Lesko (ed.),
Masculinities at School (Sage 2000), 49-71.
• William Pinar - `Boy culture during the lynching era,' `Homophobia,'
`Black men: A crisis of black masculinity?,' `Black masculinity
today,' `Demasculinized superstuds,' and `Compulsive masculinity,' from
The Gender of Racial Politics and Violence in America (Lang
2001), 384-390, 848-860, 876-888, & 906-923.
• Review: JFA material.
Optional:
• William Pinar - `The crisis of white masculinity,' `The end of
romantic friendship,' and `Hysteric white men,' from The Gender
of Racial Politics and Violence in America (Lang 2001), 321-348 &
411-416
• Klaus Thewelweit - `Foreword' (Barbara Ehrenreich) from Male Fantasies,
Vol.1 (Minnesota 1987), xvii-xxii, and `Battle and
the body' from Male Fantasies, Vol.2 (Minnesota 1989), 176-223.
Viewings (Remember to type in "cs" and the password
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database.)
• The Quick and the Dead • Three
Kings • The Cell: Dream
Devil and Unconscious
Descent •
MACHO: • Wonderboys • Ice T - MTV biography • Affliction
• Star
Wars • The Quick and the Dead • Robocop: Auto-Cop
and Robo's
Birthday and Shot
in the Dark • Gladiator
• Three
Kings The Cell • Everything
You Ever Wanted to Know About Sex • El Topo • One Eyed
Jacks • Last Tango in Paris • Red Letters • Rock Star:
Cop's
Critique •
WARRIOR: • Spartacus
• Gladiator
• Star
Wars •
SEX • Everything
You Ever Wanted to Know About Sex •
SEXISM: • La
Strada • Lulu (Depardieu) • Reservoir
Dogs • Celebration • The Sweet Life • Journey
to the Center of the Earth • Thelma & Louise: Pulled
Over and On
the Edge and Explosion
• What Planet Are You From? • Wayne's World • Nurse
Betty • Beyond the Clouds • Bridget Jones' Diary •
G.I.Jane • Who's Talking Now? • Everything
You Ever Wanted to Know About Sex • Wanderers (0.50) •
DUALITY: • Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde (1.30, 1.42, 1.55, 1.56) •
COMPETITION: • Keeping the Faith •
HOMOPHOBIA: • American Beauty: Next Door Neighbors, Going to School, Fathers, Colonel's Confession • Priscilla, Queen of the Desert • Boys Don't Cry • Before Night Falls • Looking for Mr Goodbar • Hate, Homophobia, and Schools •
Readings
• James Baldwin - `Freaks, or the American ideal of manhood,' from
Collected Essays.
• Richard Dyer - `Homosexuality and film noir,' from The Matter of
Images: Essays on Representations (1993), 52-72.
• D.A.Miller - `Anal rope,' in Diana Fuss, Inside/Out.
• Constance Penley - `The cabinet of Dr.Pee-Wee: Consumerism and
sexual terror,' camera obscura, 1988, 17, 133-154.
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HOMOEROTIC: •
The Maltese Falcon• Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid •
Zed
and Two Noughts •
T-Men • Hearts in Atlantis •
HOMOSOCIAL: • Women in Love • Blade
Runner • Raging
Bull • Casino • Smoke: Angie's
Tale and Angie's
Christmas Tale • Interview with the Vampire (Jordan) • Gladiator
• Wanderers • The Magnificent Seven • Glengary Glen Ross
• * Fiction • Reservoir
Dogs • Henry, Portrait of a Serial Killer • Deliverance:
Control/Behind
and Homosexual
Rape •
GAY: • Poison • Pulp
Fiction scene 1 and scene
2 • Heidi Chronicles • Edward 2 • Before Night Falls
• M.Butterfly • Maurice • Live and Die in L.A. • The
Trial of Oscar Wilde • Peter's Friends • Unzipped • Rock
Hudson's Home Movies • Velvet
Goldmine • Wings of Desire • Before Night Falls • Querelle
• Menage • Sebastiane •
T-Men
AMBIGUITY: • Pee-Wee's Playhouse Body Stuff and Phallic/Contraceptive and Orifices/Homoerotic •
HOMOSEXUALITY: • Rope • American Beauty: Next Door Neighbors, Going to School, Fathers, Colonel's Confession •
HOMOREROTICISM AND VIOLENCE: • Fight Club • American Beauty: Next Door Neighbors, Going to School, Fathers, Colonel's Confession •
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Quotes • Lennon/McCartney
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9. Homosexuality and its Failures (3.28)
Readings
• Harold Pinter - The Comfort of Strangers
(from novel of same name by Ian McEwan) [Faber & Faber, 1990], 3-12,
19-24, 31-36,39-40.
• Ian McEwan - Enduring Love (Vintage
1998), 1-16, 216-219.
• Karen Horney - `The problem of the
monogamous ideal,' `The distrust between the sexes' and `The dread of
woman' from Feminine
Psychology (Norton 1967), 84-92, 107-118 & 133-146.
• Slavoj Zizek - `Why does the phallus appear?' from Enjoy Your
Symptom (Routledge, 1992), 113-146.
• Review: Diane Diasse - Hothead Paisan; SM, 134-167; Daniel Clowes - Ghost World (comic book); Jacques Lacan reading (Wk#3).
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COURTSHIP: • The Birds: Jungle Gym Scene • Notorious • Out of Sight • Happiness •
FANTASY: • Moulin Rouge •
If • Billy Liar •
Brazil: Destruction
Construction and Domestic
Chaos and Structures
and Separations and Metal
Giant Fight • Ghostworld: Opening
and Art
Classes •
LOVE: • Elvira Madigan • Betty Blue • Moulin Rouge • Enfants du Paradis •
SEX: • Reservoir Dogs •
VIOLENT MASCULINITY: • Basic
Instinct • The Man Who Cried •
Marnie: Marital
Rape and Frigid
Honeymoon and Red
Flashbacks • The Man Who Knew Too
Much 2 •
DOMESTIC FEMINITITY: • Happiness •
INFIDELITY: • An Unmarried Woman •
BETRAYAL: • North by Northwest: Something
Fishy and Suspicion
•
IMPOTENCE: • Bonnie and Clyde •
Schizopolis • sex,
lies and videotape •
CASTRATION: • Blood of the Poet •
FRIGIDITY: • Marnie: Marital
Rape and Frigid
Honeymoon and Red
Flashbacks •
FAILURE: • Pollock • Eye of the
Beholder • North by Northwest: Something
Fishy and Suspicion
• Pearl Harbor •
Scenes from a Marriage • Wild Strawberries
•
DEATH: • Name of Female Tightrope Walker beginning with E • Bonnie and Clyde •
10. Domination
and Sadism/Masochism
(4.4)
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Quotes • Michael
Hoffman |
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Readings
• Jessica Hochman - `Are we going to prom or to hell?' unpubd.ms.
• Jessica Benjamin - `Rational violence and erotic domination,'
Feminist Studies, 1980.
• Sigmund Freud - `A child is being beaten,' Collected Papers, vol.2,
172-186.
• Anne McClintock - `Culwick and Munby' from Imperial Leather.
• Review: John Broughton - `Theses on violence' (appropriate sections).
Optional:
`Towards the death instinct' from Freud for Beginners, 144-152; Tobias
Wolff - `Bullet in the brain,' New Yorker, 82-83;
Peter Stallybrass & Allon White -
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DOMINATION: • Election • Heathers •
SADISM/MASOCHISM: • Nine and a Half Weeks • Madonna's Girlie Concert •
SADISM: • Blue Velvet •
ABUSE: • Belladonna •
SNUFF: • 8mm • Videodrome: Killing Doctor • Cannibal Holocaust •
MASOCHISM: • Videodrome: Sado-masochism • Blue Velvet • Belle de Jour •
11. Transgender and Transsexual (with Robert Heihn)
(4.11)
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Quotes |
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Readings
•Lynne Segal - `Queer theory and gender sabotage,' in Kathryn Woodward (ed.), Identity and Difference (Sage/Open University 1997), 214-224.
•Judith Halberstam - `Looking butch:
a rough guide to butches on film,' from: Female Masculinity (Duke
1998), 175-230.
•Judy Butler - `Gender is burning,'
from: Bodies that Matter (Routledge,1993), 121-140.
•William Shakespeare -The Merchant
of Venice.
Review:
• Horney - 'The flight from womanhood' (Freud
session) and Penley 'Cabinet of Dr Pee Wee' (Masculinity session).
Optional:
• John Broughton - Review of `In a Year
of 13 Moons,' Psych Critique Newsletter, 1982, 2, and Review of `Ma Vie
en Rose,' Bank Street College of Education Occasional Papers, 2002.
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CROSS DRESSING: • Everything
You Always Wanted to Know About Sex • Tootsie
• Pee Wee's Great Adventure (Tim Burton)
•
Some Like It Hot [Presto-Changeo]
and [I'm
a Girl] •
Psycho •
DRAG: • Priscilla •
To Wong Foo • Thanks for Everything
• Julie Newmar •
Paris
is Burning (Jenny Livingstone) •
CAMP: • Pee Wee's Playhouse • Hairspray (Waters) •
MOTHER: • White Heat •
TRANSGENDER: • M.Butterfly •
The
Crying Game (Neil Jordan) • Ma Vie
en Rose: Dressing
Up and Masquerade
and Heterosexual
Classroom and Pam
and Ben and Boys
Will be Boys • Myra Breckenridge
•
TRANSEXUAL: • The World According
to Garp (George Roy Hill) • Twin Peaks
(David Lynch) •
VIOLENCE: • Dressed to Kill (DePalma) • Silence of the Lambs • Silence of the Hams •
VI. CULTURAL VIOLENCE (4.18)
12. Historical and Political
(4.18)
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Quotes
• V. Propp • Student • Yeats |
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Readings
•Sigmund Freud - excerpts from Civilization
and its Discontents.
•Wilhelm Reich - from "The Mass
Psychology of Fascism," reprinted in Richard Sennett (ed.), The Psychology
of Society (Vintage), 288-291.
•Herbert Marcuse - Aggressiveness in
advanced industrial society. In Negations (Beacon, 1968), 248-268.
•Franz Fanon - `Concerning violence,' from The Wretched of the Earth, 35-59.
•William Palmer - `The terrorism film
texts,' from The Films of the Eighties (Southern Illinois, 1993), 114-178.
Optional:
•Walter Benjamin - `Critique of violence,'
in Reflections (Schocken, 1978), 277-300.
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database.)
The Siege • The Secret Agent • T.C. Panel on Sept 11th and Education (Jan 2002)
POLITICAL: • Passage to India • Burn •
HISTORICA:• Evolution of Violence (cartoon)
•
TERRORISM • The Siege; •
Die Hard with a Vengeance • Brazil:
Destruction
Construction and Domestic
Chaos and Structures
and Separations and Metal
Giant Fight• Independence Day •
other Bruce Willis movie with mad bomber in NYC •
Ted Kaczynski documentary footage • PeeWee's
Playohuse Call
911 • Swordfish: Terrorizing
and Air
Speed •
13. The Body, Damage and the Grotesque
(4.25)
Readings
•Mikhail Bakhtin - 'The Grotesque
Image of the Body,' from Rabela, pp.303-341
.
•J.G.Ballard - The Atrocity Exhibition
(Re/search Press 1990).
•Linda Kauffman - `Cutups in beauty
school,' `Scrambling the codes:
•"Videodrome",' and `J.G.Ballard's "Atrocity Ehibitions"' from: Bad Girls and Sick Boys (California 1998), pp. 50-80, 128-135, & 149-192.
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• Zed and Two Noughts • Hollow Man (The Reversion) (Invisibalization) • Crash • Jeepers Creepers • Silence of the Lambs • PeeWee's Playhouse Facial Deformation • Torn Curtain • The Brother's Quay: Dangerous Organ •
14. Gender and Violence in the Media
(5.2)
•Nancy Boyd-Franklin & A.J.Franklin - `Rap, media influences, and hoop dreams,' from: Boys Into Men: Raising Our African American Teenage Sons (Plume 2000), 128-138.
•Steve Neale - `Masculinity as spectacle,' Screen, 1983, 24(6), 2-16.
•Mark Seltzer - `Pulp fiction: the
popular psychology of the serial killer,' from Serial Killers: Death and
Life in America's Wound Culture (Routledge 1998), 159-179.Carol Clover
- `Her body, himself: gender in the slasher film,' from: Men, Women
and Chainsaws.
Optional:
• Review Miller reading above.
•Review Gillian Skirrow - Hellivision (gender and fantasy in video games. In Colin McCabe (ed.), High Theory / Low Culture (Manchester University Press, 1986), 115-142.
Viewings (Remember to type in "cs" and the password
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BETRAYAL: • The
Crying Game (funfair) • Betrayal
• Silent Rapture •
SLASHER: • Texas •
Chainsaw Massacre •
VIOLATION • Straw Dogs •
Prince of Tides •
RAPE/REVENGE • I Spit on Your Grave
•
VGs and VR • Mortal Kombat •
Strange Days • Virtuosity • Ghost in the
Machine [Video
Game Intruder], [Ghost
Busting], [Hot
Link], [Bits
of Ghost] and [Phoenix
Cremation] •
15. Schools, Gender and Violence
(5.9)
•Jane Kenway & Sue Willis - `Power' from: Answering Back: Girls, Boys and Feminism in the Schools (Routledge 1998), 96-113.
Pierre Bourdieu - `Pedagogical violence,' from Reproduction.
•Alan Block - `School as the product of the adult fantasy of a world without children,' from: I'm Only Bleeding: Education as the Practice of Social Violence Against Children (Lang 1997), 121-146.
•Pedro Noguera - `Preventing and producing violence: a critical analysis of responses to school violence,' Harvard Educational Review, 1995 65(2), 189-212.
•John Perez - `Shoot' (comic strip).
•Ursula Kelly - `Schoolgirl exotica' from: Schooling Desire (Routledge, 1997), 91-97.
Viewings (Remember to type in "cs" and the password
given in class. Only blue titles are currently available in the online
database.)
• The Meaning of Life (Pt 2: `Growth and Development' - domination of wife, via domination of students to waging war) • Dangerous Minds • Dead Poets Society • Welcome to the Dollhouse (Rape Threat) (Rape Threat Part 2) • Basketball Diaries • Buffy The Vampire Slayer
Review: Girlfight
Presentation of final projects:
Other quotes:
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J.W.
Fulbright
• Protesters
picketing Time Warner to protest "Cop Killer"
• Chrissie
Hynde
• Christopher
Huvos
• Michel
Serres
• Robin
Morgan
• Stephen
King
• NWA
• Pierre
Bourdieu
• James
Gilligan
• P.J.
Harvey