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131-286 Screening the Holocaust | |
Note | Available as 131-386 at 3rd-year level. |
Availability | Not offered in 1998. |
Credit Points | 16.7 2nd and 3rd year |
Coordinator | Dr M Baker |
Contact | One 2-hour lecture and a 1-hour tutorial a week |
Subject Description | 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. understand critical issues in the aftermath of the Holocaust and its impact on popular culture in specific contexts; analyse the effectiveness of cinema as a medium for representing history; interpret the scope and limits for representing the Holocaust in film and other kinds of texts. |
Assessment | Written work done during the subject will consist of class papers and essays of up to 5000 words in total. |
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