Faculty of Arts
EUROPEAN 208
Special Topic: Images of Men in Europe C18-20
Description
Focuses on the images of men in Europe, from the end of the 18th century down to the present day, in the construction of European identity. The course examines the changing representations of masculinity in European visual culture, mainly through sports and war, brought into dialogue with consumption, medicine and sexuality.
Availability 2012
Semester 1
Lecturer(s)
Lecturer(s) Professor Jean-Jacques Courtine
Reading/Texts
Barthes, Roland. Camera Lucida: On Photography ( New York: Hill & Way, 1981).
Connell, R. W. Masculinities (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1995).
Forth, Christopher E. Masculinity in the Modern West (London, Palgrave Macmillan: 2008).
Ginzburg, Carlo. “Clues: Roots of an Evidential Paradigm”, in Myths, Emblems, Clues (London: Hutchinson Radius, 1990).
Mosse, George. The Image of Man: The Creation of Modern Masculinity (New York : Oxford UP, 1996).
Recommended Reading
Belting, Hans. An Anthropology of Images: Picture, Medium, Body (Princeton: Princeton UP, 2011).
Bourke, Joanna. Dismembering the Male: Men’s Bodies, Britain & the Great War (London: Reaktion, 1996).
Foucault, Michel. The History of Sexuality, vol. I (New York: Vintage, 1978/1990).
Hall, Lesley. Hidden Anxieties: Male Sexuality, 1900-1950 ( Cambridge: Polity, 1991).
Hearn, Jeff & Pringle, Keith. European Perspectives on Men & Masculinities (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006).
Holt, Richard. Sport & the British: A Modern History (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1898).
Large, David C., Nazi Games. The Olympics of 1936 (London: WW Norton & Co, 2007).
Mac Laren, Angus. Impotence: A Cultural History (Chicago, The UP of Chicago, 2007).
Nye, Robert A. Masculinity & Male Codes of Honour in Modern France (Oxford: Oxford UP, 1993).
Gilman, Sander L. Fat Boys: A Slim Book (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004).
Theweleit, Klaus. Male Fantasies, 2 vol. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1987).
Assessment
Coursework: 2 essays, 20% (1200) and 30% (1800 words)
Exam: 1 two-hour final written exam (50%)
Points
EUROPEAN 208: 15.0 points
Prerequisites
Any 30 points passed in BA courses
Restrictions
EUROPEAN 304
