German Studies 300 - TOPICS IN GERMAN CULTR & SOC
Spring
2015
01
4.00
Joel Westerdale
MW 01:10-02:30
Smith College
39940-S15
GREEN 102
jpwester@smith.edu
Topics course. This course investigates German film culture since the fall of the Third Reich. Included are works by Fatih Akin, Michael Haneke, Werner Herzog, Margarethe von Trotta and Wolfgang Staudte. Students learn to analyze film and conduct basic research in German. Discussion addresses aesthetic and technical issues; portrayals of race, gender, class and migration; divided Germany and its reunification; and filmic interventions into the legacy of Nazism. In German. Prerequisite: GER 250 or permission of the instructor.
Topic: Vom Krieg zum Konsens: German Film since 1945.