Mar 29, 2024  
2008-2009 
    
2008-2009 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

GER 234 - Defining “Germanness” (in trans.)


Instructor
McCulloh

This course explores the manner in which Germany and Germans are depicted in literature and film, primarily film adaptations of those literary works, including both German and “Hollywood” films. Fictional representations of “Germanness” are subjected to critical scrutiny and analysis, from Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front (1929) and its first American screen adaptation to the consummately wholesome The Sound of Music to the scathingly critical films of Fassbinder to the playfully satiric Schulze Gets the Blues. Texts are in English translation, German films have subtitles.

Prerequisites & Notes
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