Women and Film introduces students to the history and criticism
of feminist theory and filmmaking. European and American critics,
historians, and directors are studied for how feminist practice
and theory have developed.  Exemplary films by women directors
are evaluated in relation to their historical and critical
contexts, giving students a working understanding of the issues 
at stake within writing about films as well as making them from a
feminist perspective.

I.  Women and Film:  Early European Women Directors
      A.  Germaine Dulac and French Impressionism
      B.  Leni Riefenstahal:  Aesthetics, Ideology, Politics
II. Classical Era Hollywood and its Alternative
      A.  Dorothy Arzner as Test Case
      B.  Maya Deren and the Avant-Garde
III. Radical Feminist Film Practice
      A.  Chantal Akerman's Counter-Cinema
      B.  Margarethe von Trotta and New German Cinema
      C.  Feminist Theory and Narratives
            1.  Marleen Gorris
            2.  Jennie Livingston
IV:  Feminism and Independent Cinema
       A.  Nancy Savoca and Female Perspective
       B.  Sally Potter and Feminist Literary Adaptation
       C.  Julie Dash and African American Representations
       D.  Jane Campion's Romances
       E.  Maggie Greenwald Reworks Genre