Course Schedule - Spring Semester 2021

     

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GERM 335 901 (CRN: 24132)

GERMAN FILM (IN ENGLISH)

Long Title: GERMAN FILM (IN ENGLISH)
Department: Modrn & Classicl Lit & Culture
Instructor: Blumenthal-Barby, Martin
Meeting: 3:10PM - 4:30PM TR (25-JAN-2021 - 30-APR-2021) 
Part of Term: Full Term
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Language of Instruction: Taught in English
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Method of Instruction: Online
Credit Hours: 3
Course Syllabus:
Course Materials: Rice Campus Store
 
Restrictions:
Must be enrolled in one of the following Level(s):
Undergraduate
Section Max Enrollment: 19
Section Enrolled: 1
Enrollment data as of: 19-APR-2024 8:18AM
 
Additional Fees: None
 
Final Exam: No Final Exam
Final Exam Time:
6-MAY-2021  
2:00PM - 5:00PM R
 
Description: The course explores filmic representations of communities, their complex mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion, their inevitable dynamics of otherness, as well as practices of modern states toward communal regulation and control. While communities biologically denote the interaction of organisms sharing an environment, we will examine the practices of power that states wield toward the maximization of “life.” Hence the questions of biopower, health politics, eugenics, sexism, racism, and genocide. How do films negotiate the precarious politics of communal life, what are their strategies for resistance, and what their moments of complicity? We will explore how film reflects communal life in twentieth-century German history, but also, and perhaps primarily, how film responds to that history by generating its own speaking power and mobilizing its own political force. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for GERM 335 if student has credit for FSEM 136/GERM 136.