Screening Sex: Gender, Sexuality, and Identity on the German Screen and Beyond
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This option course focuses on the representation of sex, gender, sexuality (as well as other intersections of identity), and the representation or implication of sex acts onscreen.
Students will learn to 'read' film, including close analysis (shot types, editing, sound etc.), to theorise various types of onscreen representation (using, for example, Queer Theory, Gender Theory, Psychoanalysis), and to locate film historically (including key film movements and tends such as New German Cinema, New Queer Cinema, and Transnational Cinema).
SCQF Credits: 10
Credit Level: 8
Year Taken: UG2