Women Detectives & the Female GazeWomen Detectives & the Female Gaze (POPC 280)
Term: 2026-2027 Academic Year Fall 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