Dr Leticia Sabsay

This course is compulsory on the MSc in Gender, Media and Culture. This course is available on the CEMS Exchange, MBA Exchange, MPhil/PhD in Gender, MSc in Culture and Society, MSc in Gender, MSc in Gender (Research), MSc in Gender (Sexuality), MSc in Gender, Policy and Inequalities and MSc in Organisational and Social Psychology. This course is available as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit.

This course will be capped at 40 students.

This course aims to enable students: to think critically about representations of gender in a range of different media; to apply a range of theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of the media; to examine changing representations of gender in the context of wider social changes and to explore questions concerning the interpretation and use of different media formats and content. The course focuses on examples largely drawn from Anglo-American media and usually includes topics such as news media and gender; gendered approaches to contemporary cinema; online environments and gender, and critically explores terms such as 'postfeminism' in relation to media content. The course also considers themes such as the nature of contemporary celebrity and questions of media representations of gender in relation to dimensions such as sexuality, class, race, age and (dis)ability.

Students will be expected to maintain familiarity with contemporary UK media, although there is opportunity to research and write on other national contexts.

The course runs across the MT. It contains both asynchronous and interactive teaching and learning elements.

There will be a reading week in week 6 in line with department policy.

A short essay to be submitted during MT.

• Carter C and Steiner L (eds) (2004)  Critical Readings: Media and Gender
• Dyer, R. (2002) The Matter of Images: Essays on Representation.
• Gill, R. (2007) Gender and the Media 
• Hall, S. (1997) Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices.
• Tasker, Y. and Negra, D. (eds) (2007) Interrogating Postfeminism: Gender and the Politics of Popular Culture (Console-ing Passions).
• van Zoonen, L, (1994) Feminist Media Studies.
• Waters ,M (ed)  (2011) Women on Screen.

Essay (100%, 3000 words) in the LT.

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