German Studies 231 - TOPCS IN CINEMA: NAZI CINEMA
Spring
2017
01
4.00
Joel Westerdale
TTh 03:00-04:20
Smith College
41458-S17
HATFLD 204
jpwester@smith.edu
Topics course.: Explore and examine the Third Reich’s media dictatorship: how spectacle and entertainment can engineer consent with manipulative distractions; how mass media can serve a totalitarian regime by responding to festering resentments with nationalist fantasies of cultural renewal; how seemingly harmless entertainment can promote a politics of fear and racism to horrific ends. Course emphasizes entertainment films of the Third Reich, with special attention to the works of Leni Riefenstahl. Conducted in English.
Topic: Nazi Cinema.
Multiple required components--lab and/or discussion section. To register, submit requests for all components simultaneously.
You must also register for a Lab section.