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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; screening, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Proposes an international look at the phenomenon of migration through film. Film can be considered the foremost medium to do justice to this issue.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; term paper, 2 hours; outside research, 1 hour. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Explores the mutual attraction between Mexican and French cultures. Readings include the works of Mexicans Reyes, Rivera, Fuentes, and Toledo and Frenchmen Artaud, Breton, Peret, and Soustelle and demonstrate the long-lived attraction between Mexico and France. Examines how artists, writers, and intellectuals are transformed by their experiences in each country.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; screening, 2 hours; individual study, 1 hour. Prerequisite(s): upperdivision standing or consent of instructor. An introduction to classic works of German literature and their film adaptations. Explores adaptations by film directors such as Welles, Kubrick, Visconti, and Fassbinder. Studies the nexus between literature, film, and theatre. Course conducted in English. Cross-listed with GER 126 and MCS 126.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; extra reading, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upperdivision standing or consent of instructor. Critical introduction to three central thinkers of modernity. Topics include alienation, free will, revolution, the unconscious, sexual difference, political power, and the modern conception of truth. Readings and discussions are in English. Selected readings are in German for German majors and minors. Cross-listed with GER 131.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; extra reading, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upperdivision standing or consent of instructor. Introductory study of the French philosopher and novelist Jean- Jacques Rousseau and the age of revolution in France, Germany, and England. Topics include social inequality, slavery, gender, subjectivity, violence, and political rights. All readings are in English. Cross-listed with FREN 132 and GER 132.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; screening, 2 hours; extra reading, 1 hour. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Examines cinematic confrontations involving World War II in Germany and Japan. Topics include desire between victims and perpetrators, representation of trauma, and ethical responsibility. All screenings have English subtitles. Cross-listed with GER 134, JPN 134, and MCS 114.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; screening, 2 hours; individual study, 1 hour. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Analysis of the role of German immigrants in the emergence of film noir in 1940s' Hollywood. Examines the revitalization of Weimar Expressionism in Hollywood cinema. Explores traumatic memory, cultural transfer, exile and displacement in films by German filmmaker refugees including Fritz Lang and Billy Wilder. Cross-listed with GER 135 and MCS 170.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; extra reading, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Introductory study of German Romanticism from its origins in Goethe to its development in Hoffmann. Topics include madness, sexual desire, doppelganger, homicide, and automata. All readings are in English; selected readings are in German for German majors and minors. Cross-listed with EUR 137 and GER 137.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; screening, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Introduction of the German avant-garde of the twentieth century. Explores expressionism, New Objectivity, the Bauhaus movement, the manifestation of an anti-art in dadaism, and Epic Theatre. Studies works of Franz Kafka in the context of his implicit criticism of the avant-gardist movements of his time. Course is conducted in English. Cross-listed with AHS 121, EUR 138, GER 138, and MCS 182.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; extra reading, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Explores changes in notions of space, time, religion, economics, history, politics, art, gender, and sexuality through an interdisciplinary consideration of verbal and visual texts. Readings are of Petrarch, Boccaccio, Veronica Franco, Gaspara Stampa, Machiavelli, Castiglione, Ariosto, Benvenuto Cellini, Marco Polo, Cristoforo Colombo. Presents slides of relevant architecture and visual images. Cross-listed with ITAL 140.
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