Class Id: 8900
Days: M
Start Time: 07:00 PM
End Time: 09:00 PM
Building: EPYNE
Room: 205
Course Id: 3968
Departments and Numbers: GER 525, MOD 525
Area:
Title: Studies in German Film: Early German Cinema
Description: This seminar in media history, theory and criticism subjects a rediscovered cache of rare silent films to a variety of critical interrogations, exploring the complex intermedial dynamics (relations to theater, variety, literature), establishment of key legitimation discourses (film criticism and theory, the Autorenfilm), development of new narrative forms ("birth" of the feature film, the serial detective genre), work of ignored pioneers (the Brothers Skladanowsky, Oskar Messter), gender and class dynamics in the transformation of the public sphere, and issues of technology, politics and the historicity of perception.
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Professors: Thomas Y. Levin
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