The module will be delivered entirely through VLE. This will include the production of a series of lectures available to download as either text files or podcasts which will introduce and explore key debates, placing them in a social, historical and cultural context.

Online lectures will be accompanied by a series of powerpoint presentations, designed to be viewed separately or in tandem with podcast lectures that will act as lecture notes that students may choose to adapt and add to as they see fit.

It may be appropriate for a limited screening programme to take place in order for students to access rare or hard to find key texts.

Each week a bibliography of recommended print based readings will be supplied relating to the week's lecture topic and this will be complemented by a selective choice of online references which during the course of the module will accumulate into a significant online resource for students to refer to whilst producing their final essay assessment.

Blackboard's discussion forum facility will be used as a venue for online seminar discussion (participation in which will be assessed.) On a weekly basis a range of questions/topics will be posted for discussion and students will be expected to contribute their views and perspectives. In this way during the course of the module, seminar debates are kept 'live' for many weeks and act as a record of participation and reference for students wishing to choose a specific topic for an essay.

This module is designed to explore issues surrounding representations of sexuality in cinema and television. The module engages with questions relating to notions of identity and gender, issues surrounding personal freedom and sexual pleasure, the history of censorship in mainstream cinema and television, the notions of 'adult', 'erotic' and 'pornographic' texts and the construction of hegemonic and counter-hegemonic sexual identities. The module will introduce key theoretical debates and academics who have engaged with this, often controversial, subject matter and place ideas in a broader historical, cultural and social context. Lectures will include:

- Pre-Code Cinema and the Imposition of Regulation and Censorship
- Heterosexual Hollywood and the Representation of 'Normative' Sex
- The Counter Culture and the Sexual Revolution
- Adult and Erotic modes of filmmaking
- The Pornography Debate
- Sexuality and Identity Politics
- Television Censorship in the U.K.: The watershed and the Viewers and Listeners' Association
- Sex and Contemporary Cinema and Television
- Sex and Commerce/Sex as Commerce
- Female Sexuality and Contemporary Television: Sex and the City and Desperate Housewives

Essay 1500 to 2000 word essay from a selection and self-assessment report 80% [Learning Outcome 1, 2, 3 , 4]
Contribution to online discussion forum (Oral Appraisal) 20% [Learning Outcome 1, 2, 3, 4]

Blackboard VLE
Film Theatre for special screenings
Video/ DVD library.

Bernstein, M (ed.) Controlling Hollywood: Censorship and Regulation in the Studio Era. (Athlone Press,2000)
Davies, J and Smith, C Gender, Ethnicity and Sexuality in Contemporary American Film. (Keele University Press, 1997)
Dyer, R The Matter of Images: Essays on Representation. (Routledge, 2002)
Foucault, M. The History of Sexuality Volume 1 (Penguin, 1978)
Hogan, D. Dark Romance: Sexuality in the Horror Film. (McFarland, 1997)
Holmlund, C Impossible Bodies: Femininity and Masculinity at the Movies. (Routledge, 2002)
Juffer, J. At Home with Pornography: Women, Sex and Everyday Life. (New York University Press, 1998)
Kipnis, L. Bound and Gagged. (Duke, 1999)
Kuhn, A. The Power of the Image: Essays on Representation and Sexuality. (Routledge, 1992)
Nye, Robert (ed.) Sexuality (OUP, 1998)
O?Toole, L. Pornocopia: Porn, Sex Technologies and Desire. (Serpents Tail, 1998).
Pease, A. Modernism, Mass Culture and the Aesthetics of Obscenity. (Cambridge University Press, 2000)
Screen, The Sexual Subject: A Screen Reader in Sexuality. (Routledge, 1992)
Tasker, Y. Working Girls: Gender and Sexuality in Popular Cinema. (Routledge, 1998)
Williams, L. Hard Core: Power, Pleasure and the 'Frenzy of the Visible'. (University of California Press, 1999)