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 has a limited number of places (it is controlled access) and demand is typically very high. Priority is given to students on the MSc Gender, Media and Culture. Students from outside this programme may not get a place. 

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 but students are encouraged to  research and write on a wider range of contexts. The course  usually includes topics such as  gendered approaches to contemporary cinema; celebrity culture; online environments and gender; and contemporary cultural representations of feminism. It critically explores the  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.

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This course runs in the AT. This course has a reading week in Week 6 of AT. 

A short essay to be submitted during AT.

• Carter C and Steiner L, Lisa McGlaughlin (eds) (2014)  The Routledge Companion to Media and Gender
• Dyer, R. (2002) The Matter of Images: Essays on Representation.
• Gill, R. (2007) Gender and the Media 
• Hall, S et al . (2013) Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices (2nd edition).
• hooks, B. (1994) Outlaw Culture Resisting Representations

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