Dr Sadie Wearing

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 45 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 and culture; 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; celebrity culture; online environments and gender; and contemporary cultural representations of feminism. It critically explores the recent history of gender studies and feminist scholarship in relation to media content and considers 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 AT.

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

A short essay to be submitted during AT.

• 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 WT.