German Studies 231 - TOPC IN CINEMA: WEIMAR FILM
Spring
2018
01
4.00
Joel Westerdale
MW 02:40-04:00
Smith College
30501-S18
SEELYE 304
jpwester@smith.edu
Topics course. Normally offered each spring.: 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, Lange, Murnau, Pabst, Ruttmann, Sternberg, Sagan and Riefenstahl. Conducted in English.
Multiple required components--lab and/or discussion section. To register, submit requests for all components simultaneously.
You must also register for a section.