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131-068 Screening the Holocaust | |
Note | Formerly available as 131-286/386. Students who have completed 131-286/386 are not eligible to enrol in this subject. |
Availability | 2nd and 3rd year |
Credit Points | 12.5 |
Coordinator | Dr M Baker |
Prerequisites | Usually 25 points of first year History, see Prerequisites. |
Semester | 1 (view timetable) |
Contact | A 1.5-hour lecture and a 1-hour tutorial per 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 totalling 4000 words. |
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