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 131-212 Screening the Holocaust

Note

Formally available as 131-286/386. Students who have completed 131-286 or 131-386 are not eligible to enrol in this subject.

Availability

2nd and 3rd year

Credit Points

12.5

HECS Band

1

Coordinator

Krystyna Duszniak

Prerequisites

Usually 25 points of first year history or Jewish studies.

Semester

2 (view timetable)

Contact

This is an intensive course to be held from Thursday 4 July - Tuesday 23 July each day except Wednesdays. A 50-minute lecture, 40-minute film and a 1-hour tutorial per day. The remainder of the film to be screened (over 40 minutes) will continue after the lecture and screening. This part of the screening is optional but students are expected to have watched the film before attending tutorials

Subject Description

This subject tackles the complex issues that arise in relation to depictions of the atrocities of the Holocaust. Students will view and discuss a variety of documentary and fictional films about the Holocaust. These films will be considered in relation to the history they are depicting, and with an examination of their specific national and political agendas. The subject will study the fate of the Holocaust in popular consciousness and the politics of memorialisation in different national contexts, including Germany, Israel, Poland and America. Students will come to understand critical historical issues relating to the Holocaust, and will be invited to analyse the effectiveness of cinema as a medium for representing history. No prior knowledge of the Holocaust is assumed.

Assessment

A 2500 word research essay and a 1500 word journal.

Prescribed Texts

A subject reader will be available. Films to be screened may include:

  • Au Revoir Les Enfants.
  • Cabaret Enemies.
  • A Love Story.
  • Escape from Sobibor.
  • Father.
  • Great Dictator.
  • The Holocaust. TV mini-series.
  • Korczak.
  • Les Miserables.
  • Life is Beautiful.
  • Music Box.
  • The Nasty Girl (Das Schreckliche Mädchen).
  • Playing for Time.
  • Reunion.
  • Schindler's List.
  • Shoah. (3 Vols).
  • The Shop on Main Street.
  • Shtetl.
  • Voyage of the Damned.
  • The Wannsee Conference.
  • Warszawa.
  • The Wonderful Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl.

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