116-235 European Spectacle 1918-1968

Note

Available as 116-335 at 3rd-year level.

Credit Points

Coordinator

Prerequisites

116-115 or 116-202 or equivalent

Semester

Contact

Subject Description

Major trends in European cinema, drama and public performance during fifty years of intense political and social change. Students who complete this subject should be able to: be familiar with major developments in dramatic and cinematic representation in France, Germany Italy from 1918 to 1968; understand the role of spectacle in effecting political and cultural change in modern Europe; relate the films and plays studied to their historical and social context; have a theoretical grasp of changes in the nature of public performance in the period studied.

Assessment

Essay and class paper totalling not more than 5.000 words.

Prescribed Texts

• Samuel Beckett, Krapp's Last Tape. (Faber).
• Bertolt Brecht, Selected Plays. (Heinemann).
• Jean Genet, The Blacks. (Faber).
• Eugëne Ionesco, The Bald Prima Donna. (Faber).
• Luigi Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author. (Penguin).
• Peter Weiss, The Persecution and Assassination of Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum at Charenton. (Marion Boyars).