GENDER, ARTS AND MEDIA

This course addresses issues, themes and forms of the current media landscape (ranging from mainstream media to artistic experimentation) through gender issues, which will be used to guide the analysis of texts and forms of representation, but also to understand the dynamics that influence their production and consumption, between hegemonic and normative forms and the possibilities of negotiation, resistance and feminist action that they offer or trigger. Gender issues will be approached and discussed from an intersectional, transfeminist and decolonial perspective, in the impossibility of disregarding the consideration of other differences, such as ethnicity, class, ability, age, which contribute to gender inequalities, beyond the simple male/female binary. The main objective is to learn to observe the media landscape in its complexity but also to develop complex and never simplistic tools for analysis.

- Being able to deal with different languages and media and artistic texts even beyond traditional contexts.
- Possess adequate knowledge of gender issues and related theories.
- Know and learn to apply different methodologies to feminist media studies for theoretical and field research.
- Recognise and define one's own positioning in research and adopt a situated and self-reflexive perspective.
- Articulate the complexity of positionings and forms of subjectification and identification.
- Apply gender theories to the analysis of the media field from an intersectional and decolonial perspective.
- Link and compare theories and practices for feminist analysis and action.

Being open to listening and dialogue while respecting differences.

- Historical background and the contemporary scenario: a genealogy of feminisms without caesuras; terms and problems.
- Media production and consumption and gender issues: problems, challenges and opportunities.
- Hegemony and subalternity: feminist media between dominant and oppositional readings and practices.
- Feminist methodologies and approaches to the study of media: quantitative and qualitative tools for analysis.
- Representation, identity, forms of identification and subjectification; stereotypes and commonplaces.
- Performativity and gender performance.
- The politics of positioning for feminist research.
- Cultural studies and critical theories, from queer theories to critical race theory.
- Gender in an intersectional perspective: beyond binarism and essentialism.
- The decolonial and transnational approach to feminist media studies.
- Productive and reproductive labour in the contemporary media landscape.
- The relationship between gender and technologies, from theory to practices in media and with digital arts.
- Feminist actions and activism in and with media.

Alison Harvey, Studi femministi dei media, Meltemi, 2023.

ongoing verification through class discussions and exercises, final written or oral verification (depending on class size and annual syllabus).

Frontal lectures, class discussions and class and home exercises.

Italian

written and oral

This subject deals with topics related to the macro-area "Poverty and inequalities" and contributes to the achievement of one or more goals of U. N. Agenda for Sustainable Development