GMST 054. German Cinema

(Cross-listed as LITR 054G, FMST 054)
This writing intensive course is an introduction to German Cinema from its inception in the 1890s until the present. It includes an examination of early exhibition forms, expressionist and avant garde films from the classic German cinema of the Weimar era, fascist cinema, postwar rubble films, DEFA films from East Germany, New German Cinema from the 1970s, post 1989 heritage films, Turkish-German Cinema, and Berlin School films from the 2000s. Students in the class will analyze a cross-match of popular and arthouse cinemas while discussing concepts of mass culture, medium-specific aesthetics, propaganda, history and memory as identity- and nation-building practices. Taught in English.
Fulfills national cinema requirement for FMST.
Prerequisite: FMST 001 or instructor’s permission.
Humanities.
Writing course.
1 credit.
Fall 2024. Simon.
Catalog chapter: Modern Languages and Literatures: German Studies
Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/german-studies

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