Women Detectives & the Female GazeWomen Detectives & the Female Gaze (POPC 280)
Term: 2024-2025 Academic Year Spring Semester
Description
POPC 280 | Women Detectives & the Female Gaze | 3 credits
Prerequisite: Grade C or higher in either LIT 163 or in POPC 101
This course will explore women detectives in
films, television, graphic novels, comics/cartoons,
novels, and other cultural representations.
Students will analyze, through critical discussions
and associated readings, whether these women
detectives reach the standards set by pop culture
feminists and theoretical feminists, or whether
they are sabotaged by the many compromises
made by producers and marketing teams of
television and film. Victims, criminals, and
detectives will be viewed through the female
gaze via this exploration of the pop cultural
phenomenon of women detectives and the
audiences who watch them. Term offered: every
other spring