AS 214.340 - Holocaust & Film

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Johns Hopkins University

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Taught in English. This course examines the question of the Holocaust and its representation in the filmic media. We will analyze such themes as post-traumatic documentary (e.g., Night and Fog, Alain Resnais 1955), the resistance to representation (Shoah, Claude Lanzmann 1985), Holocaust drama and the ethics of entertainment (e.g., Schindler’s List, Steven Spielberg 1993), the question of filmic adaptation (e.g., The Grey Zone, Tim Blake Nelson 2002—based on Primo Levi’s The Drowned and the Saved 1986), and the new genre of confessional first person video-diary (e.g., Two or Three Things I know About him, Malte Ludin 2005). On this last theme we will also host the two-day symposium “The Holocaust: Children of the Perpetrators Confront Their Parents’ Nazi Past through Documentary Film,” in March 09. The symposium will feature three international documentary filmmakers and their recent films The End of the Neubacher Project, Marcus Carney 2007, Fatherland, Manfred Becker 2006, and Two or Three Things I know About him, Malte Ludin 2005, in which the filmmakers —children of Nazi perpetrators—are asking the question “who am I in relation to my father’s deeds?” The symposium will further include a number of experts on the topic of Holocaust, commemoration, and documentary film. Students will be involved in the preparation and, if interested, in the panel-discussions of the symposium. All films will be screened with English subtitles; this class is reading-intensive and writing-intensive; weekly response papers will be written about the films and the course topic at large. Cross-listed with Film and Media Studies, Political Science, History, and Jewish Studies

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.jhu.edu

Phone Number:

(410) 516-8000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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