Essential Questions
- What constructs your identity?
- What are the types of representation of male and female as well as masculine and feminine in film?
- How has cinema constructed masculine and feminine types?
- What impact do these representations have on the individual in society?
Mon 4/22
What is your identity? What is it made up of?
- Identity mapping–what are all the components that make up your identity?
- Write “me” in the center and draw lines out to all the things that make you “you”
- Reflecting on your identity
- What three words best describe you? Why?
- Would others choose those words? What would they say about you?
- Is there a difference between what the world sees and what you feel inside about who you are?
- How about the future you? What words do you want to describe the future you?
Intro to Gender Lens
- Representations of masculinity and femininity in film
HW: For tomorrow’s class: Read What’s the Difference btw a Selfie and a Self-portrait? and Newsworthy Topic from TL
Due Friday: Creating your own portrait. Based on the writing you did today about yourself and self-portraits, you will create your own self-portrait (your first in a series of 12). NOTE: the self-portrait does not need to a photograph. You can use painting, sculpture, or collage to abstractly represent the self. Your only directive is to consciously make decisions in how you choose to represent yourself.
Tues 4/23
Newsworthy Topic Discussion TL
- Viewing self-portraits
- Carrie Mae Weems
- cindy-sherman-viewing-images
- What decisions do these two artists make in representing themselves? What differentiates these from selfies?
- Think about a film that spoke to you OR was targeted for you. What were the representations in that film? Was there a character that you identified with? What was it about that character? Was it their emotional outlook? Their physical appearance? Both? Describe the representation in that film.
- Representations of masculinity and femininity in film
Film noir overview
- The Story of Film-Film Noir (13. 47-37.31)
- What is film noir?
Clips of film noir and addressing the gaze
- How does the scene include elements of the film noir genre?
- What ideas about the gaze and representations of gender are applicable to the film?
HW: Newsworthy Topic reading JD
Wed 4/24
Newsworthy Topic JD
cont. film Noir and overview of presentation assignment
- The Story of Film-Film Noir (14.52-37.31)
- What is Italian Neo-Realism
- What is film noir?
Thurs 4/25
Viewing Films
- Double Indemnity (225)
- The Big Sleep (221)
- Gun Crazy (223)
- Out of the Past (212)
Friday 4/26
Finish viewing film and working on group presentation
Viewing Film
*CM and MH Newsworthy Topics due
Mon 4/29
*MH Newsworthy Topic Discussion
Tues 4/30
*CM Newsworthy Topic Discussion
Gallery of Selves
- Self-portrait series assignment
Finish viewing film and working on group presentation
- Additional readings about films
Wed 5/1
Drop
Thurs 5/2
Presentations of film noirs
HW: What the Movies Taught Me About Being a Woman
Fri 5/3
What the Movies Taught Me About… writing prompts
Intro to Casablanca (1942)
- How and why does Curtiz use film noir elements?
- How does Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman) fit and not fit the femme fatale?
- How does Rick (Humphrey Bogart) fit and not fit the role of the fated, flawed film noir male and the traditional Hollywood male?
- In what ways is this a more traditional Hollywood film?
- What is the representation of masculinity and femininity here? How are those representations “working”?
- What concepts of the gaze apply to this film?
Mon 5/6
Intro to Casablanca (1942)
- How and why does Curtiz use film noir elements?
- How does Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman) fit and not fit the femme fatale?
- How does Rick (Humphrey Bogart) fit and not fit the role of the fated, flawed film noir male and the traditional Hollywood male?
- In what ways is this a more traditional Hollywood film?
- What is the representation of masculinity and femininity here? How are those representations “working”?
- What concepts of the gaze apply to this film?
Tues 5/7
cont. Casablanca
Wed 5/8
finish Casablanca
Preparing for the Socratic Seminar
Thurs 5/9
Socratic Seminar
Fri 5/10
Intro to Godard, New Wave, and Breathless
HW: due Tuesday Semester 2 participation reflection
Mon 5/13
Drop
Tues 5/14
Breathless
Wednesday 5/15
Breathless
HW: preparing for seminar
Thurs 5/16
Socratic Seminar for Breathless
Fr 5/17
Final gallery of selves
