GERMAN LITERATURE II
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- Academic year
- 2016/2017
- Teacher
- MATTEO GALLI
- Credits
- 6
- Didactic period
- Secondo Semestre
- SSD
- L-LIN/13
Training objectives
- Advanced ability to a textual analysis of films, using structuralist methodologies, textual criticism and with the instruments of cultural studies. Knowing the history of German Cinema
Prerequisites
- None
Course programme
- Representation of Berlin in the German and in the World Cinema The students have to collocate Berlin-Films in the context of some important discourses for the German Culture in the Twentieth Century, among others: gender, history, nation, politics,
7 films on Berlin in German and in International Cinema Didactic methods
- Seminar
Learning assessment procedures
- Seminar paper (10-15 pages) on a Berlin-Film, on a discourse activated by the history of german film with a special attention to intertextual relations and models
Reference texts
- Films (selection):
Robert Siodmak et alia: Menschen am Sonntag (1930); Leni Riefensthal: Olympia (1936); Wolfgang Staudte: Die Mörder sind unter uns (1946); Billy Wilder: A Foreign Affair (1948); Gerhard Klein: Berlin-Ecke Schönhauser (1957); Billy Wilder: One, Two, Three (1961); Jürgen Böttcher, Jahrgang 1945 (1966); Heiner Carow: Die Legende von Paul und Paula (1973), Wim Wenders: Der Himmel über Berlin (1987), Andreas Dresen: Sommer vorm Balkon (2005), Jan-Ole Gerster: Oh Boy (2012).
Bibliography:
Nadin Wildt: Filmlandschaft Berlin. Großstadtfilme und ihre Drehorte. Berlin 2016
