With reference with the two following films “Out of the Past and Gilda “discuss the representation of women in film noir and explain why this has been of interest to:feminist, critics.

Essay – 2,250-2,750 words

QUESTION

With reference with the two following films “Out of the Past and Gilda “discuss the
representation of women in film noir and explain why this has been of interest to: feminist
critics

Materials

Representation, Ideology and Genre – Women in Film Noir

Out of the Past (aka Build My Gallows High) (1947, Jacques Tourneur, USA)

Film Link:

https://primewire.es/movie/out-of-the-past-6lokp/1-full

Reading:

—Douglas Kellner (1998) ‘Hollywood Film and Society’ in John Hill and Pamela Church Gibson
(eds.), The Oxford Guide to Film Studies, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 354-362

—Janey Place (1979) ‘Women in Film Noir’ in E. A. Kaplan (ed.) Women in Film Noir, London:
BFI, 35-67.

Lecture (video attached file): Women in Film Noir

Part 1

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1D1trqSlXSyt6WobCHA7g1smjlpaeYujo/view?usp=sharing

Part 2

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IFBQSOZ5GKDhNcYZRJTkAQm7ZsfZjqev/view?
usp=sharing

Gilda (1946, Charles Vidor, USA)

Film Link:

https://primewire.es/movie/gilda-yv1qx/1-full

Reading:

—Laura Mulvey (1975) ‘Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema’, Screen 16:3, 6-18.

—Dyer, Richard (1979), ’Resistance through Charisma: Rita Hayworth and “Gilda”’ in E Ann
Kaplan (ed.), Women in Film Noir, London: BFI, pp.91-9.
Lecture (video attached file): Just Looking?

Part 1

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yt6UyJ7XRxXPS01Cp-VvsruHI5uRAmSx/view?
usp=sharing

Part 2

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Fg9QnCofwfAm3hV-hRdplF7w0Gq7ocQK/view?
usp=sharing

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