German Studies 231 - TOPICS IN GERMAN CINEMA

Topics course. During the brief period between the fall of the Kaiser and the rise of the Nazis, Germany was a hotbed of artistic and intellectual innovation, giving rise to an internationally celebrated film industry. With an eye to industrial, political and cultural forces, this course explores the aesthetic experience of modernity and modernization through formal, narrative and stylistic analyses of feature films from the ?Golden Age? of German cinema. Films by Wiene, Lang, Murnau, Pabst, Ruttmann, Sternberg, Sagan, Riefenstahl. Conducted in English.

Topic: Weimar Film.