| Course Title: Advanced Courses in History and Theory: 'Mediating Motherhood' |
| Start Date: 01/23/2024 End Date: 05/07/2024 |
| Term: Spring Semester 2024 |
| Description: This course investigates the ways media have mediated cultural perceptions of "moms" and "motherhood," from the maternal melodramas of Hollywood Cinema to ultrasound images used to justify government policies regulating women's health decisions. Along the way we consider how reality TV has represented moms as figures of excess, nurture, irresponsibility, and domesticity; how the horror genre probes the uncanny, creepy, and violent aspects of motherhood; motherhood as refracted through social media influencer culture; and counter-hegemonic representations of trans parenthood. We discuss the entanglements between representation, regulation, and resistance around these mediations of mothers. |
| Distribution(s): I - Humanities , TP - Topics Course |
| Academic Level Of Course: Undergraduate | Credits:4.00 |
| Faculty | Phone | Email address |
| Hannah Goodwin | hgoodwin@mtholyoke.edu |
| Meeting Dates | Method | Meeting days | Meeting times | Building name | Room | Frequency |
| 01/23/2024 - 05/07/2024 | Lecture | Tuesday and Thursday | 10:30AM - 11:45AM | ART - Art | 219 | Weekly |
| 01/23/2024 - 05/07/2024 | Film Screening | Wednesday | 07:15PM - 10:05PM | ART - Art | 221 | Weekly |
| Requisite Courses | ||
| Prereq: 8 credits in Film Media Theater. | Take previously | Required |
| Comments |
| Additional Comments |
| Course Tags | ||
| FMT0004 | FMT-CR: Critical Studies | This course has been approved to count towards the Film, Media, Theater major in the Critical Studies area. |
| Cross-listed Sections |
| None |
| Course Availability | ||||
| Section status: Closed | Capacity: 18 | Enrollment: 19 | Available: 0 | Waitlist: 0 |
BOOK INFORMATION
| Book List | Required | Publisher Full Price |
| To be determined. |
| Additional Book Comments |
| This is NOT the complete book list for this class. |