A history of the German Cinema, 1945-1980s
Presentations
will be completed in groups of 2-3. They should last 15-20 minutes and raise issues
for discussion. They can be formal or informal, invite participation or not,
and should be exploited as an opportunity to experiment. You should link your
topic directly to the film or films in question. You are also encouraged to
draw links between different films and different periods (i.e. the theme of
sexuality in Abgeschminkt might be
compared with the same them in Alice in
den Städten).
Presentations
are not assessed, but there will be feedback. Presentations should also show
evidence of further reading and be accompanied by a hand-out and bibliography.
Christa Klages Feminism/The
Student Movement
Das Versprechen German
Unification
Abgeschminkt Gender and Sexuality
Sonnenallee Ostalgie
and the GDR
Aimée und Jaguar The Nazi Past Again and The
Berlin Republic
Suggested Reading
® are especially recommended
You may also find
useful information on the internet, using a search engine such as www.yahoo.de, or the departmental Sprungbrett ins Internet
Vergangenheitsbewältigung
Coming to terms with the past from 1945-1970s.
®Rob Burns, German
Cultural Studies
®Mary Fulbrook, German
identity after the Holocaust
Stefan Berger, The
Search for Normality
Jeffrey
Herf, Divided
Memory: The Nazi Past in the Two Germanies
Feminism:
Feminism: politics, theory and relationship to the student movement.
Feminism and Film.
®Julia
Knight, Women
and the New German Cinema
®Sandra
Frieden (ed.), Gender
and German Cinema: Feminist Interventions
®Ingrid Sharp’s course on Women in Germany:
website
®Ingrid
Sharp, Women
in Germany: The German Women's Movement
Ingrid Sharp, Women
in Germany from Division to Unification
Eva Kolinsky, Women
in contemporary Germany: Life, Work and Politics
Gisela Helwig und Hildegard Maria Nickel
(eds.) Frauen
in Deutschland, 1945-1992
Gastarbeiter and Racism:
Immigrants to Germany, the Nazi past.
®Günter
Wallraff, Ganz
unten
Günter Wallraff (trans. Martin Chalmers), Lowest
of the Low
®Ulrich
Herbert, A
history of Foreign Labor in Germany, 1880-1980
Philip L. Martin, The
Unfinished story: Turkish Labour Migration to Western Europe
German Unification:
Debates
surrounding German Unification, winners and losers, victims and perpetrators.
®Mary Fulbrook, Anatomy
of a Dictatorship: Inside the GDR, 1949-1989
®Mary
Fulbrook, The
Divided Nation: A History of Germany, 1918-1990
®Harold
James and Marla Stone (eds.), When the Wall Came Down: Reactions to German
Unification
Jeffrey Herf: Divided
memory : the Nazi Past in the Two Germanys
Mary Fulbrook, 'Wir
sind ein Volk'?: Reflections on German Unification
Elizabeth Boa and Janet Wharton (eds.), Women
and the Wende: Social Effects and Cultural Reflections of the German
Unification Process
Richard T. Gray and Sabine Wilke (eds.), German
Unification and its Discontents: Documents from the Peaceful Revolution
Stuart Taberner, ‘Debates on German Unification in Margarethe von
Trotta’s Das Versprechen’, in Jill
Forbes and Sarah Street (eds.), European
Cinema, Macmillan, 2000.
Gender and Sexuality:
Gender,
the German past, German identity, and sexuality in the 1990s.
®
Thomas Elsaesser and Michael Wedel (eds.), The
BFI Companion to German Cinema (Chapter: German Cinema in the 1990s)
Julia Knight, Women
and the New German Cinema
Sandra Frieden (ed.), Gender
and German Cinema: Feminist Interventions
Stuart Taberner, ‘Masculinity and America in Wim Wenders’ Alice in den Städten’, in Jill Forbes
and Sarah Street (eds.), European Cinema,
Macmillan, 2000.
Ostalgie and the GDR
50
Jahre BRD | Heute - Ostalgie-Partys
Musik
der Freiheit - DER SPIEGEL - SPIEGEL ONLINE
DDR
Grenzschild - Die DDR im World Wide Web
Chris Flockton and Eva Kolinsky, Recasting
East Germany: Social Transformation after The GDR
The Nazi past Again:
®Stefan Berger, The
Search for Normality
Introductory lecture to
Final Year Course: The meaning of
the Holocaust in post-unification Germany
Stuart Taberner, ‘Wie kannst du mich lieben?’: ‘Normalising’ the
Relationship between Germans and Jews in the 1990s’ Films Aimee und Jaguar and Meschugge
(from me)
A history of the German Cinema, 1945-1980s