VAM4760

Gender, body and performance

(ART)

Rachel Fensham and Rose Lucas

12 points + Two hour seminar and one hour film screening + Second semester + Clayton

Synopsis: This unit will introduce the theoretical debates which construct and inform relations between the concepts of gender, bodies and performance. The unit will investigate how different discourses including visual and literary criticism, performance studies, psychoanalysis, social theory, anthropology and philosophy have produced meanings about the body and gender and consider the ways in which these discursive constructions of the body have been represented in performance. It will focus on the ways in which particular technologies of representation contribute to the meanings of the body in performance.

Assessment: Two review essays (2000 words each): 25% each + Essay (5000 words): 50%