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GERMAN 342
Contemporary German Film 1980-
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This course will introduce students to the important role film has played in the public discourse about German society immediately prior to reunification in the 1980's and during the turbulent social adjustments in unified Germany after 1990. Lectures and readings in the first week will cover important terms and concepts in film theory as well as provide background for the specific German context of film history. The class will treat film in the 1980's in terms of continuations of and liberations from the New German Cinema of the 1970's in West Germany, and in the context of state censorship and sponsorship of film in East Germany. We will approach movies from the 1990s and 2000's by accessing their depiction of historical and contemporary Germany throught the lens of reunification, and we will examine issues of German identity especially as contextualized by reunification and multiculturalism. The course will be taught in English with subtitled films. Prerequisite: GERMAN 315 for German majors/minors
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Faculty:
College of Arts & Sciences
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Department:
Foreign Languages & Literature
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