WST 2611:
Humanities Perspectives on
Gender and Sexuality
Spring 2013 - Section 02E2/16H3

with Dr. Picart

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Course Materials

 

Section I - Monsters, Authors, Culture, Power

 

Monday, January 7

Peter Brooks: What is a Monster? (1) Instructor (PW) Student
The Issue of Biological Essentialism in Art (2) Instructor (PW) Student

 

 

 

Wednesday, January 9

Basic Film Elements (3) Instructor (PW) Student
Images and Representation - Thoughts on Early Cinema (3) Instructor (PW) Student
Frankenstein - Creation scene   YouTube Link
Frankenstein - Girl and pond   YouTube Link
Bride of Frankenstein - Monster meets bride   YouTube Link
Frankenweenie   YouTube Link

 

 

 

Friday, January 11

Dracula   YouTube Link
Frankenstein’s Creature   YouTube Link
Alien   YouTube Link
Werewolf   YouTube Link

 

 

 

 

Section II - Teratologies of Gender and Sexuality

 

Monday, January 14: Monstrosity and Female Authorship
Wednesday, January 16: Visualizing the Monstrous: Romanticism and Feminism
Friday, January 18
Wednesday, January 23

Romanticism & Shelley's Frankenstein (4) Instructor (PW) Student

 

 

 

Friday, January 25

Basic Film Elements (3) Instructor (PW) Student
Images and Representation - Thoughts on Early Cinema (3) Instructor (PW) Student
Classic Hollywood Film Language (5) Instructor (PW) Student
Classic Hollywood Style (5) Instructor (PW) Student
Classical Cinematic Technique and Shadow of a Doubt (5) Instructor (PW) Student

 

Camera Distance:
Extreme Close-up:   YouTube Link
Close-up:   YouTube Link
Medium Close-up:   YouTube Link
Medium Shot:   YouTube Link
Medium Long Shot:   YouTube Link
Extreme Long Shot, Long Shot, Medium shot, Close up:   YouTube Link

 

Camera Placement and Movement:
Rack-Focus:   YouTube Link
Deep Focus:   YouTube Link
High-Angle Shot:   YouTube Link
Low-Angle Shot:   YouTube Link
Zoom vs. Dolly Shot:   YouTube Link
Dolly Shot:   YouTube Link
Pan:   YouTube Link
Pan vs. Tilt Shot:   YouTube Link
Crane Shot:   YouTube Link
Tracking Shot:   YouTube Link
Steadycam Shot:   YouTube Link
High-key Lighting:   YouTube Link
Low-key Lighting:   YouTube Link

 

Transitions:
Cut:   YouTube Link
Fade:   YouTube Link
Dissolve:   YouTube Link
Wipe:   YouTube Link
Iris:   YouTube Link
Cross-cutting:   YouTube Link
Match-Cut   YouTube Link
Match Dissolve   YouTube Link

 

Other Elements:
P.O.V. Shot:   YouTube Link
Shot/Reverse Shot:   YouTube Link
180-Degree Rule:   YouTube Link
Establishing Shot:   YouTube Link
Slow Motion:   YouTube Link
Fast Motion:   YouTube Link
Freeze Frame:   YouTube Link
God’s eye view:   YouTube Link
Process Shot:   YouTube Link
Voiceover:   YouTube Link
C.G.I.:   YouTube Link

 

 

 

Monday, January 28

Case Study:Evolution of Frankenstein Sec.1 (6) Instructor (PW)  
Case Study: Politics of the Gaze Sec.2 (6) Instructor (PW)  
Case Study:Evolution of Frankenstein Sec.1 (7)   Student (PW)
Case Study: Politics of the Gaze Sec.2 (7)   Student (PW)

 

 

 

Wednesday, January 30
Friday, February 1

Monstrosity, Sex, & Gender
(General Teacher Edition Lectures)
(8) Instructor (PW)  
Monstrosity, Sex, & Gender: TE
(General Teacher Edition Lectures)
(8) Instructor (PW)  
Monstrosity, Sex, and Gender
(Finalized Teacher Edition - Student Access)
(9)   Student (PW)
Monstrosity, Sex, and Gender
(Finalized Student Edition Study Guides - General Access)
    General Access

 

Frankenstein (1931)
Prologue and Harvesting of Body Parts:   YouTube Link
The Parthenogenetic Birth:   YouTube Link
The Creature Emerges:   YouTube Link
Dungeon Scene (re-edited):   YouTube Link
The encounter with Maria:   YouTube Link
Monster in the House:   YouTube Link
Color Test footage:   YouTube Link

 

Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
Prologue:   YouTube Link
Learning about Fire:   YouTube Link
The Friendship with the Blind Man:   YouTube Link
Dr. Praetorius and his Homunculi:   YouTube Link
Dr. Praetorius and the Monster Conspire:   YouTube Link
Trying to Convince Henry to Create the Bride of Frankenstein:   YouTube Link
Elizabeth and the “electric box”:   YouTube Link
The Bride Awakens:   YouTube Link
The Monster Meet s His Bride:   YouTube Link

 

Overall Production History — Universal Films:   YouTube Link

 

 

 

Monday, February 4

Romanticism & Shelley's Frankenstein
(General Teacher Edition Lectures)
(10) Instructor (PW)  
Contemporary Renditions of Frankenstein
(General Teacher Edition Lectures)
(10) Instructor (PW)  
Contemporary Renditions of Frankenstein: TE
(General Teacher Edition Lectures)
(10) Instructor (PW)  
Contemporary Renditions of Frankenstein
(Finalized Teacher Edition - Student Access)
(11)   Student (PW)
Contemporary Renditions of Frankenstein
(Finalized Student Edition Study Guides - General Access)
    General Access

 

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1994)
Ball Scene:   YouTube Link
Parthenogenetic birth (trailer):   YouTube Link
Creature Confronts Victor:   YouTube Link
Wedding night/heart removal:   YouTube Link
The Creature claims Elizabeth-Justine:   YouTube Link
Interview: The Creature converses with the Blind Man/Conversation with Victor:   YouTube Link

 

 

 

Wednesday, February 6
Friday, February 8
Monday, February 11

Queen of the Damned - A (12) Instructor (PW) Student
Queen of the Damned - B (12) Instructor (PW) Student

 

 

 

Wednesday, February 13

Queen of the Damned - Official Movie Trailer   YouTube Link
Aaliyah in Queen of The Damned   YouTube Link
Queen of the Damned - Slept so long   YouTube Link

 

 

 

Friday, February 15
Monday, February 18
Wednesday, February 20

Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal (13) Instructor (PW) Student
Silence of the Lambs - A (13) Instructor (PW) Student
Silence of the Lambs - B (13) Instructor (PW) Student
Hannibal - A (13) Instructor (PW) Student
Hannibal - B (13) Instructor (PW) Student

 

 

 

Friday, February 22
Monday, February 25

Silence of the Lambs, Trailer   YouTube Link
Silence of the Lambs, Conversation between Hannibal and Clarice   YouTube Link
Silence of the Lambs, “Lambs screaming”   YouTube Link
Silence of the Lambs, Buffalo Bill   YouTube Link
Silence of the Lambs, Buffalo Bill, "put the lotion in the basket"   YouTube Link
Hannibal - Trailer   YouTube Link
Hannibal - Nurse attack   YouTube Link
Hannibal - Mason Verger   YouTube Link

 

 

 

Wednesday, February 27
Friday, March 15

Monster (2003), Trailer   YouTube Link
Monster (2003), Meeting Selby Wall   YouTube Link
Monster (2003), Aileen’s rape (last section)   YouTube Link
Monster (2003), Love scene   YouTube Link
Monster (2003), Finding Work   YouTube Link
Monster (2003), Regrets   YouTube Link

 

 

 

 

Section III - Bodies, Dance, Performance (2.5 weeks)

 

Monday, March 18
Friday, March 22

Review   allmovie.com
NBC News Report   YouTube Link
Interview with Soledad O’Brien   YouTube Link

 

 

 

 

Section IV - Marginalization and Monstrosity: Gender, Race, Crime (1 week)

 

Monday, March 25

Francis Sparshott: Why Philosophy Neglects the Dance (14) Instructor (PW) Student
Artistic Transformation within the Ballet     Student
Eric Bentley: Martha Graham's Journey A (15) Instructor (PW) Student
Eric Bentley: Martha Graham's Journey B (15) Instructor (PW) Student
Eric Bentley: Martha Graham's Journey C (15) Instructor (PW)  
Smith: Authoritarianism and the Dance (16) Instructor (PW) Student
Fuller’s Serpentine Dance   YouTube Link
Josephine Baker’s “Banana Dance”   YouTube Link
Josephine Baker, Comedic Vaudeville   YouTube Link
Josephine Baker, Improvisations   YouTube Link
George Balanchine’s “Apollo”   YouTube Link
“Bringing Balanchine Back”   YouTube Link
“Dancing for Mr. B., Six Balanchine Ballerinas”   YouTube Link
George Balanchine’s “Jewels”   YouTube Link
Martha Graham, “Lamentation”   YouTube Link
Martha Graham Interview   YouTube Link
Martha Graham, “Night Journey”   YouTube Link
Martha Graham, “Frontier”   YouTube Link
Martha Graham Dance Company   YouTube Link
Katherine Dunham, “Stormy Weather”   YouTube Link
Katherine Dunham, “Global Hearts”   YouTube Link
Katherine Dunham’s work on exhibit   YouTube Link
Katherine Dunham on Overcoming Racism   YouTube Link

 

 

 

Wednesday, March 27

Martha Graham: Movement Never Lies     Student
Joann Kealinihomoku: An Anthropologist Looks at Ballet (17) Instructor (PW) Student
Joann Kealinihomoku: An Anthropologist Looks at Ballet B     Student
Cynthia Jean Cohen Bull: Sense, Meaning and Perception (18) Instructor (PW) Student
Fuller’s Serpentine Dance   YouTube Link
Josephine Baker’s “Banana Dance”   YouTube Link
Josephine Baker, Comedic Vaudeville   YouTube Link
Josephine Baker, Improvisations   YouTube Link
George Balanchine’s “Apollo”   YouTube Link
“Bringing Balanchine Back”   YouTube Link
“Dancing for Mr. B., Six Balanchine Ballerinas”   YouTube Link
George Balanchine’s “Jewels”   YouTube Link
Martha Graham, “Lamentation”   YouTube Link
Martha Graham Interview   YouTube Link
Martha Graham, “Night Journey”   YouTube Link
Martha Graham, “Frontier”   YouTube Link
Martha Graham Dance Company   YouTube Link
Katherine Dunham, “Stormy Weather”   YouTube Link
Katherine Dunham, “Global Hearts”   YouTube Link
Katherine Dunham’s work on exhibit   YouTube Link
Katherine Dunham on Overcoming Racism   YouTube Link

 

 

 

Friday, March 29

Ann Cooper Albright: Auto-Body Stories (19) Instructor (PW)  
Sondra Stamey Sluder: Her Story (19) Instructor (PW)  
Julie Taylor: Paper Tangos A (19) Instructor (PW) Student
Julie Taylor: Paper Tangos B (19) Instructor (PW)  
Tango (1998): Trailer   YouTube Link
Tango (1998): Percussion sequence   YouTube Link
Tango (1998): All male number   YouTube Link

 

 

 

Monday, April 1

Ann Cooper Albright: Auto-Body Stories (19) Instructor (PW)  
Sondra Stamey Sluder: Her Story (19) Instructor (PW)  
Julie Taylor: Paper Tangos A (19) Instructor (PW) Student
Julie Taylor: Paper Tangos B (19) Instructor (PW)  
The Tango Lesson: Trailer   YouTube Link
The Tango Lesson, Watching Pablo Dance   YouTube Link
The Tango Lesson, First Lesson   YouTube Link
The Tango Lesson, Progress in Dancing   YouTube Link

 

 

 

Wednesday, April 3

Ann Cooper Albright: Auto-Body Stories (19) Instructor (PW)  
Sondra Stamey Sluder: Her Story (19) Instructor (PW)  
Julie Taylor: Paper Tangos A (19) Instructor (PW) Student
Julie Taylor: Paper Tangos B (19) Instructor (PW)  
Take the Lead, Trailer   YouTube Link
Take the Lead, Tango Scene   YouTube Link
Take the Lead, Tango Last Dance   YouTube Link
Mad Hot Ballroom, Trailer   YouTube Link
Mad Hot Ballroom, Tango   YouTube Link

 

 

 

Friday, April 5

Sally Peters: From Eroticism to Transcendence (20) Instructor (PW) Student
Figures and Styles: The Birth of Modern Dance (20) Instructor (PW) Student
Dancing through Different Worlds     Student
Take the Lead, Trailer   YouTube Link
Take the Lead, Tango Scene   YouTube Link
Take the Lead, Tango Last Dance   YouTube Link
Mad Hot Ballroom, Trailer   YouTube Link
Mad Hot Ballroom, Tango   YouTube Link

 

 

 

Monday, April 8

Sally Peters: From Eroticism to Transcendence (20) Instructor (PW) Student
Figures and Styles: The Birth of Modern Dance (20) Instructor (PW) Student
Dancing through Different Worlds     Student
Dirty Dancing, "Do You Love Me"   YouTube Link
Dirty Dancing, "Hungry Eyes"   YouTube Link
Dirty Dancing, "Time of My Life"   YouTube Link
Shall We Dance (Japanese version), Trailer   YouTube Link
Shall We Dance (Japanese version), “Dance from the Heart”   YouTube Link
Shall We Dance (Japanese version), Major Misstep   YouTube Link
Shall We Dance, Tango   YouTube Link
Shall We Dance, Rumba   YouTube Link

 

 

 

 

Section V - Destabilizing Stereotypes (2.5 weeks)

 

Wednesday, April 10

Young Frankenstein (21) Instructor (PW) Student
Horror-Hilarity (21) Instructor (PW) Student
Dancing through Different Worlds     Student
Young Frankenstein, Trailer   YouTube Link
Young Frankenstein in Five Minutes   YouTube Link
Young Frankenstein, “Putting on the Ritz”   YouTube Link
Young Frankenstein, “You men are all alike!”   YouTube Link
Young Frankenstein, “Blind Priest” Scene   YouTube Link

 

 

 

Friday, April 12

Conjunctions Between Holocaust and Horror Films (22) Instructor (PW) Student
Pan’s Labyrinth, Trailer   YouTube Link
Pan’s Labyrinth, Lullaby   YouTube Link
Pan’s Labyrinth, Frog Scene   YouTube Link
Pan’s Labyrinth, Get Out Alive   YouTube Link
Pan’s Labyrinth, Interview   YouTube Link

 

 

 

Monday, April 15

Pan’s Labyrinth, Trailer   YouTube Link
Pan’s Labyrinth, Lullaby   YouTube Link
Pan’s Labyrinth, Frog Scene   YouTube Link
Pan’s Labyrinth, Get Out Alive   YouTube Link
Pan’s Labyrinth, Interview   YouTube Link
X-Men, Trailer   YouTube Link
X-Men: The Last Stand, Trailer   YouTube Link
X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Trailer   YouTube Link

 

 

 

Wednesday, April 17

X-Men, Trailer   YouTube Link
X-Men: The Last Stand, Trailer   YouTube Link
X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Trailer   YouTube Link

 

 

 

 

 

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