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
