Description
[cross-listed with SOC 3703] This course will examine the historically changing role of girls in film. Students will analyze films and texts that include diverse character studies. Additionally, this class will feature a study on how cinema and advertising entice girls as an audience. We will look at how girls use film to tell their own stories and how social factors, technology, audience expectations, consumerism, historical and cultural fluctuations, etc. help to frame the perception and narrative of girls in different settings and time periods. Independent and shared research communities will help students develop an essay and multimodal project. This course will introduce students to film terminology and theoretical concepts as well as rhetorical evaluation practices required in analyzing films, primary and secondary sources, and other artifacts. The course will examine films from American independent and Hollywood studios, French New Wave, Studio Ghibli, and more.