Reading list

Gender and visual cultures

Genus och visuella kulturer

Course
FL1091
First cycle
7.5 credits (ECTS)

About the Reading list

Valid from
Spring semester 2026 (2026-01-19)
Decision date
2025-11-20

De Lauretis, Teresa. 1985. “Aesthetic and Feminist Theory: Rethinking Women’s Cinema”. New German Critique, No. 34, 154–75.

Hole, Kristin Lené and Jelača, Dijana. Film Feminisms – A Global Introduction. Routledge, 2018.

Ince, Kate. 2016. “Body”. In The Body and the Screen: Female Subjectivities in Contemporary Women’s Cinema, 49–72. Thinking Cinema. New York: Bloomsbury Academic.

Marks, Laura U. 2000. “Chapter 4: The Memory of the Senses.” In Skin of the Film: Intercultural Cinema, Embodiment & the Senses. Duke University Press.


McNeill, Isabelle. 2017. “‘Shine Bright Like a Diamond’: Music, Performance and Digitextuality in Céline Sciamma’s Bande de filles (2014)”. Studies in French Cinema, 18(4), 326–340. https://doi-org.ezproxy.ub.gu.se/10.1080/14715880.2017.1345187


Mortimer, Claire. 2021. “‘An Old Character Bag’: Joan Hickson as Miss Marple”. MAI: Feminism and Visual Culture, Issue 7, Summer. https://www.maifeminism.com/an-old-character-bag-joan-hickson-as-miss-marple/


Westling, Karolina. 2025. The Cinematic Enfant Terrible: Rule-Breaking Children and Teenagers in French Cinema. New York: Bloomsbury Academic.


White, Patricia. 2015. “The Horizon of Women’s Cinema”. Wuxia 1/2. https://www.wuxia.no/essay-/qa9rvindjwrkfqd98x9u5fwbvz3fro


Winter, Juliet. 2018. “The Politics of Beyoncé’s Pregnancy: Re-Articulating Lemonade’s Narrative Agency through the Public Construction of Black Motherhood”.MAI: Feminism and Visual Culture, Issue 2, Autumn. https://www.maifeminism.com/the-politics-of-beyonces-pregnancy-re-articulating-lemonades-narrative-agency-through-the-public-construction-of-black-motherhood/