The Gaze in Media & Culture - 4 Weeks

Tu+Fri, 6-8pm ET

4 weeks, Feb 11 - March 7

This course examines theories of “the gaze” in philosophy, psychoanalysis, and film theory through the study of visual art and cinema. Each week of the course, we will focus on one major theoretical approach to this concept as well as one or more works of visual art and film that exemplify it. We will consider theories by Jean-Paul Sartre, Frantz Fanon, Jacques Lacan, Michel Foucault, and Laura Mulvey.

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Instructor: Laurena Tsudama is a Rutgers University PhD Candidate in nineteenth-century literature with interests in philosophy and film. Most recently, she presented at the Modern Language Association and published with the JHI Blog and White Rose University Press. Her dissertation is titled "Deceivers and Dupes: Relational Deception in Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Fiction.”