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Mar 18, 2026
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MM 307 - Feminist Cinema
Credit(s): 3
The purpose of this course is to immerse students in American and World cinema written, produced, and directed by women from the late 19th through the early 21st century. Throughout the history of the medium movies have aided in shaping and evolving various cultural identities, contributing to beliefs, norms, and ideals. In well over a century of cinema women’s contributions to the medium have been immeasurable, yet these offerings and influences have often been overlooked. Throughout this course students are expected to actively engage in both absorbing and dissecting cinematic texts heavily influenced by women through viewing, critical analysis, and peer discussion. Students will also investigate the contributory factors which lead to the marginalization of women in film. Films, both fiction and non-fiction, are historical texts that inevitably display elements of the society in which they were created and initially viewed. As such, movies created by women have a unique perspective and power to reveal, create, and critique social norms in societies and an industry that largely reduced them to second-class status. By studying films and film criticism produced by women, we develop a more complex understanding of international, historical, and contemporary cultures, and foster further examination of how these texts shaped our contemporary worldview.
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