GER 242 - Hollywood Alternatives, From Germany and Beyond (in trans.)

This course offers a sampling of historical and contemporary attempts to challenge Hollywood’s dominant cinematic codes. We will watch films from the Weimar Republic, “New German Cinema” of the 1970s, Russian montage, French New Wave, art house cinema of the 1960s, as well as feminist, Black, and queer films. Filmmakers include: F.W. Murnau, Maya Deren, Luis Bunuel, Jean-Luc Godard, Michelangelo Antonioni, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Michael Hanecke, Todd Haynes, Charles Burnett, Barry Jenkins, Chantel Akerman, Claire Denis, and Celine Sciamma. Students will write short essays and make their own short experimental films.

Satisfies the Visual and Performing Arts requirement.
May be counted toward the interdisciplinary minor in Film and Media Studies.