- Using any of the assigned readings and your own analysis of chosen shots or scenes, compare and contrast the female gaze represented in two or three of the following Jennifer’s Body and Wonder Woman
- Laura Mulvey, (1975) ‘Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema’, Screen, Volume 16, Issue 3, Autumn 1975, Pages 6–1.
- Judith Mayne, ‘Dance, Girls, Dance,’ Directed by Dorothy Arzner, ed. Judith Mayne, Indiana University Press, 131-147. (See PDF below or physical copies available in library)
-Claudia Gorbman, ‘Music in the Piano,’ Jane Campion’s The Piano. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
- Paszkiewicz, K., 2018. ‘Genre in the margins: Kelly Reichardt’s Meek’s Cutoff,’ Genre, authorship and contemporary women filmmakers, 134-172. (link to online book) See also PDF below.
- Curtis, N. (2020), Wonder Woman and Captain Marvel: The (Dis)Continuity of Gender Politics. Journal of Popular Culture, 53: 926-945.