Teaching Women and Film
By Sarah Gilligan
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This comprehensive and insightful guide introduces key approaches to teaching women and film with accessible reference to key contemporary critical and theoretical writing, together with in-depth case studies. In addition to providing frameworks and advice for teaching women and film as a specialist topic, the guide encourages the integration of women and film to the teaching of genre, representation and audiences. The guide takes an intertextual approach, drawing case studies from contemporary mainstream cinema, advertising, magazines and television.
Contents include:
- Introduction: assessment contexts and schemes of work
- Key debates in women and film: the industry, theory, women's voices, consumption and pleasure
- Women working the film industry: recent trends and developments, Kathryn Bigelow
- Stars and spectatorship: escapism, identification, consumption, Gwyneth Paltrow
- Genre and costume analysis: Characteristics of Heritage / Post-heritage cinema, re-reading the Heritage film, gender and sexual identity
About the author
Sarah Gilligan is Lecturer in charge of Media at Hartlepool College of Further Education, where she is responsible for the delivery of AS/A2 Media Studies and AVCE in Media: Communication and Production.
Ordering information
- Catalogue no: BR057 £24.95
Buy online from the BFI Filmstore or phone Palgrave Macmillan Orders on 01256 302866.
Review
Read the Times Educational Supplement's review of Teaching Women & Film.
Additional resources
This book is supported with a range of online resources, including student handouts. View a free sample worksheet (PDF, 111kb).
To download the student worksheets for Teaching Women and Film please login using the username and password issued when you purchased a copy of the teaching guide.
This download section also includes:
- Tips for making women and film and feminist film theory accessible
- Additional case study - Sex and the City
For more resources to support the study of women and film, view the following web pages of the BFI National Library:
- Women and Film on screenonline
- Find out more about Women and Film in the BFI's definitive guide to Britain's Film and TV history, screenonline. UK schools can register for free to view moving image material.
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