1. Global knowledge of Cultural Studies as a tool for analyzing audiovisual narrativity, for understanding contents, especially in everything related to gender, sex, sexuality and personal identity. 2. A knowledge of concepts, functions and methodologies of Cultural and Gender Studies to deal with media culture. 3. Capacity to interpret and analyze critically media messages in contemporary society. 4. Expertise and creative competence to apply what has been learned to the construction of plots and characters.

This program has as a priority goal to offer to the student an approach to gender studies and to the new analytical and epistemological methodologies and points of view provides by them in the field of Media Studies. 1. Theoretical and methodological questions (I). The denaturalization of the image. 2. Theoretical and methodological questions (II). Gender as social technology. 3. The false Happy Ending as a way to subvert the Institutional Mode of Representation. 4. Gender identity as performance. 5. Gender and violence: representation of violence and violence of representation.

The course will be divided in magistral sessions and seminars. The first ones will be devoted to introduce the student to the use of necessary methodological tools to deal with the diverse problems related to the topic. The second ones will be devoted to discussion and to the analysis of the proposed audiovisual texts.