Second Semester

This semester we will focus on German Cinema in the wake of the international success of Lola Rennt (1998)  

Week
1  

German Film since the early 1990s

 

Lecture notes
2 and 3  

What is 'German' Film?

Tom Tykwer  Lola rennt (1998)

 

 

 Lecture notes

4 and 5  

Youth Culture and 'Ostalgie'

Leander Haußmann   Sonnenallee (1999)

 

 

Article

6 and 7  

Revisiting NGC and 'Westalgie'

Oskar Röhler    Die Unberührbare (2000)

 

 

Article

8 The 'Kanak Attack'

Fatih Akin    Kurz und schmerzlos (1998)

 

 

Guest session by Dr Rachel Palfreyman (University of Nottingham) co-author of Heimat, A German Dream

                                      

Select Bibliography

 

Alison Philips, German Cultural Studies (London: Arnold, 2002)

Carol Anne Costabile-Hemming et al. Textual Responses to German Unification (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2001) BL MAIN 1   German P-0.31 COS

Thomas Elsaesser and Michael Wedel, The BFI Companion to German Cinema (London: BFI, 1999) EBL COUNTER   EBL Counter B0694 

Mette Hjort and Scott Mackenzie, Cinema and Nation (London: Routledge, 2000) BL MAIN 4   Theatre Q-12 HJO  

   

 

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First semester

A history of the German Cinema, 1945-1980s

The language of film

Presentation topics

  Screening Identities film project