Middlebury

GRMN 0314

German Cinema

German Cinema
Major trends and movements of German film history from the classic period of German Expressionism (Wiene, Lang, Murnau, Pabst) to the Fascist propaganda film (Harlan, Riefenstahl), the post-World War II "rubble films," and finally the rise and fall of New German Cinema (Fassbinder, Kluge, Wenders, Herzog, von Trotta). Issues to be discussed include history in film and film as history, the "aestheticization of politics" in Nazi cinema, "auteurist cinema," German film theory and criticism (Arnheim, Benjamin, Kracauer, Wenders), and finally, film as an instrument of public discourse.
Subject:
German
Department:
German
Division:
Languages
Requirements Fulfilled:
ART EUR
Equivalent Courses:
FMMC 0314

Sections

Fall 2006

GRMN0314A-F06 Lecture (Stimmel)
GRMN0314Y-F06 Discussion (Stimmel)