GER 342 - Cultural, Filmic and Digital Studies (taught in English)

Cultural, Filmic and Digital Adaptations examines a variety of medium-specific transformations that occur across German and American culture. We will read adaptation theory, examine intercultural and intermedial manifestations of the adaptation process, and consider connections with translation studies. “Intertextuality” will also serve as a touchstone throughout, or multidirectional movements between source and adaption and art itself as dialogic in nature. Our material will include Weimar cinema as source for Hollywood noir films, web series like “Awkward Black Girl” as template for stories about multicultural creatives in Berlin, Grimm’s fairytales in video game format, and American horror films and westerns as inspiration for German arthouse cinema. Students will write analytic essays and complete one creative assignment that adapts a source in one medium to another.

Satisfies German Studies major and minor requirement.
Satisfies Film and Media Studies Interdisciplinary minor requirement.
Satisfies Visual and Performing Arts requirement.