Literature
Art
Film
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| August |
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| 26 |
Introduction to the course: overview of
politics, social issues, and art
Film: Cabaret. 1972. Dir. Bob Fosse.
128 min.
Based on Christopher Isherwood's
Goodbye to Berlin and
John van Druten's
play. |
| September |
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| 2 |
The Legacy of the Great War
WW I, Germany, the Versailles Treaty, pacifism, art
Reading: Kaes, Sourcebook. Ch. 1 (pp. 5-34) and Ch.
2, (only pp. 35-6)
White, Alfred. Weimar Republic. (Ency. of Germ
Lit.; handout)
Film: "Artists at War 1914-1918" (documentary).
55 min. |
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| 9 |
Modernism: Part 1
Heinrich Mann, Professor Unrat (1905)
Reading: Heinrich Mann (DLB, on
reserve)
Films: Interview with Josef v. Sternberg
(excerpts). 1965. 27 min.
Marlene (Marlene Dietrich)
1993. Dir.
Maximilian Schell. 91 min. |
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| 16 |
Josef von Sternberg, The Blue Angel
(filmscript)
Reading: Joseph von Sternberg (World Film Directors,
on reserve)
Film: The Blue Angel 1930. Dir. Josef von
Sternberg. 106 min. |
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| 23 |
Modernism: Part 2
Franz Kafka, A Hunger Artist (1922, handout); The
Judgment (1913); In the Penal Colony (1919)
Reading: Max Brod "Franz Kafka's Posthumus
Writings" (1924) in Kaes, Sourcebook,
pp.
510-12
Franz Kafka (Encyclopedia
of German
Literature, on reserve)
Film: Documentary on Kafka (Ten Great
Writers:
Franz Kafka) 59 min. |
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| 30 |
Hermann Hesse. The Steppenwolf
(1927) pp. 1-128 (Engl.); 1-165 (Dt.)
Reading: Hermann Hesse (DLB, on
reserve) |
| October |
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| 7 |
Hermann Hesse. The Steppenwolf. Pp. 128-218
(Engl.); 165-278 (Dt.)
Film: The Haunted Screen: Weimar
Cinema (documentary overview) |
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| 14 |
Expressionism and the Cinema, Part I.
Reading: Kaes, Sourcebook, Ch. 25
Film: Nosferatu. 1922. Dir. F.W. Murnau.
64 min. |
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| 21 |
Expressionism and the Cinema, Part II.
Film: Metropolis. 1926. Dir. Fritz
Lang. 115 min. |
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| 28 |
Expressionism and Art
Film: Expressionism (documentary).
60 min.
Artists: Grosz, Schiele, Beckmann, Kirchner,
Kokoschka, Kollwitz, Nolde |
| November |
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| 4 |
Dada and Surrealism in Art
Reading: Kaes, Sourcebook, Ch. 19
Film: Dada and Surrealism (documentary).
60 min.
Artists: Klimt, Schwitters, Hanna Höch,
Gabriele Münter, Dix, Kandinsky, Munch |
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| 11 |
Avant-garde Art
Artists: Marc, Ernst, Barlach, Klee, Macke,
Arp, Ensor |
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| 18 |
Modernism and the Political
The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill
(1928)
Reading: Kaes, Sourcebook, Ch. 21
and Ch. 23
(pp.576-77 only)
Bertolt Brecht (DLB,
on reserve)
The Threepenny Opera
court case (handout)
Film: The Threepenny Opera. 1931.
Dir. G. W. Pabst. 113 min. |
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| 25 |
Thanksgiving |
| December |
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| 2 |
Individual and Society: the Artist
Thomas Mann. Tonio Kröger (1903)
Guest Speaker: Dr. Gamin Bartle
Reading: Thomas Mann (DLB, on reserve)
Film: Documentary on Thomas Mann (FHS, 45 min.) |
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| 9 |
Individual and Society: the New Woman and Berlin
Readings: Kaes, Sourcebook, Ch. 8, 16, 22
Film: Pandora's Box. 1928. Dir. G.W.
Pabst. 110 min. |
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| 14 (Tues) |
FINAL EXAM (8:00-10:30 a.m.) |
Texts:
Kaes, Sourcebook = Kaes, Anton, and Martin Jay
and Edward
Dimendberg, eds. The Weimar
Republic Sourcebook. (2
copies on reserve in Gorgas)
DLB = Dictionary of Literary Biography (essays on
Brecht, Th.
Mann, H. Mann, and Hesse on
reserve in Gorgas)
Encyclopedia of German Literature: Biographical essay
on
Kafka on reserve
Essay on Weimar Republic (handout)
The Blue Angel / Professor Unrat by Heinrich Mann
and The
Blue Angel filmscript by
Josef v. Sternberg are published
together in a single volume.
Because the work is out of
print, it is available only
as a photocopy from the Supe
store. Check under GN403; if
there are none on the shelf,
request that a copy be printed.
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