English 286-001
Writing About Film and Television: Writers on the Screen
Instr: Wollersheim, Ruth
Office: CRT 537; 229-5041
e-mail: rew2@uwm.edu
Office hours:
Course Information: M&W; 11:00am-12:45pm; CRT 104
Course Description
This course explores new Hollywood's representations of white middle-class masculinity as a masculinity that is in perpetual crisis. While much critical attention has deservedly been given to representations of women and non-white identities in Hollywood film, 1990s cinema gives us a body of texts that allow us to view the white American male identity as a cinematically and ideologically gendered representation as well. In many movies throughout the 1990s and beyond, viewers are confronted with a representation of the white American man that renders him unstable, broken, volatile, self-destructive and, often, hysterical. Students will compose essays aimed at deconstructing Hollywood's visual and aural representations of the "crisis of masculinity" and examining the larger cultural implications of these representations.
