This semester we will focus on German Cinema in the wake of the international success of Lola Rennt (1998)
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| 1 |
German Film since the early 1990s
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Lecture notes |
| 2 and 3 |
What is 'German' Film? |
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| 4 and 5 |
Youth Culture and 'Ostalgie' |
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| 6 and 7 |
Revisiting NGC and 'Westalgie' |
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| 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