German Studies 231 - TOPICS IN GERMAN CINEMA
Fall
2012
01
4.00
Joel Westerdale
TTh 01:10-02:30; M 07:30-09:30
Smith College
18796-F12
SEELYE 106; MCCONN B05
jpwester@smith.edu
Topics course. A study of German cinema during the Third Reich: the legacy of Weimar cinema; popular and high culture in Nazi ideology; the political function of entertainment; the question of fascist esthetics; constructions of masculinity and femininity; imaginations of the Other. With special focus on the films of Leni Riefenstahl. For comparison we will draw on some American examples (F. Capra, C. Chaplin, F. Zinnemann). Films to be studied: Hitler Youth Quex; Triumph of the Will; Olympia; Jew Suess, Muenchhausen, and others. Conducted in English.
Topic: Nazi Cinema.