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Handbook 1997 : Faculty of Arts : History

131-286/386 Screening the Holocaust

Credit Points:

16.7 2nd and 3rd year

Coordinator:

Dr M Baker

Prerequisite/s:

Normally, 25 points of first year History.

Timetable:

Semester 1

Contact:

One 2-hour lecture and a 1-hour tutorial a week

Content:

Over the past five decades, film makers and novelists have struggled with the task of depicting the atrocities of the Holocaust. A variety of documentary and fictional films about the Holocaust will be viewed and considered in relation to the themes of memory and history. The subject will study the fate of the Holocaust in popular consciousness and the politics of memorialisation in different national contexts including Germany, Israel, France and America.

Assessment:

Written work done during the year will consist of class papers and essays of up to 5000 words in total.
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