German Studies 231nm - Topics in German Cinema-Nazi Film

T: German Cinema-Nazi Film

Fall
2022
01
4.00
Joel P. Westerdale

W F 1:20 PM - 2:35 PM

Smith College
GER-231nm-01-202301
Hatfield 202
jpwester@smith.edu
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.

[CE] GER 231 Limit

Permission is required for interchange registration during the add/drop period only.
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