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English 188A - Fall, 2015
Topics in Literary and Critical Theory
Topic: Aesthetics of Gender and Money
Class Information
Instructor:
Watkins, Evan
CRN:
52432
Time:
TR 9:00-10:20
Location:
248 Voorhies
Description
The Aesthetics of Gender and Money
Over the last three or four decades cultural critics have developed multiple, nuanced and often quite complex ways of theorizing gender. For this course, however, I am interested in theorizing gender in the particular context of the following question: what happens when money supports the creation of aesthetically satisfying (for whom?) gender representations toward (whose?) specific ends? In other words, we’ll be trying to make some sense of the intersections among the crucial concepts in that question, gender and representations and aesthetics and money. Mass-market advertising (whether on the Internet, on television or in films) offers an obvious example where all the elements of the question come together, but by no means the only one. (E.g. given this context what exactly are the differences among, say, Twilight and The Hunger Games and Game of Thrones?) Part of your work for the course will involve identifying other such examples as well as reading and working with the theory texts.
You will need a good Internet connection and an account (Netflix, Amazon, etc.) that lets you stream video and music.
Grading:
Weekly Blog Posts: 35%
Seminar Presentation: 25%
Term Paper: 40%
Text:
Course Reader
Grading
see above
Texts
see above