116-028 European Spectacle 1918-1968

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Coordinator

Prerequisites

This subject is taught in English and is open to all second and third year Arts students. European studies students wishing to enrol in this subject would normally have completed first year European studies, see Prerequisites.

Semester

Subject Description

This subject deals with 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 familiar with major developments in dramatic and cinematic representation in France, Germany Italy from 1918 to 1968; have an understanding of the role of spectacle in affecting political and cultural change in modern Europe; be able to 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.