610021 American Film, Media and Culture: Mountains and Movies (1896-1930)

winter semester 2017/2018 | Last update: 03.05.2017 Place course on memo list
610021
American Film, Media and Culture: Mountains and Movies (1896-1930)
SE 2
10
weekly
each semester
English

To familiarize students with the relationship between media and culture by exploring a variety of historical and theoretical approaches to cinematic landscape studies.

This seminar offers an introduction to historical and theoretical approaches to studying landscape in cinema. The focus of the course will be on mountainous landscapes in North American and European cinema of the silent period. Looking at a variety of genres that include travelogues, exploration movies, phantom rides, propaganda films, mountain melodramas and musicals as well as war movies and westerns, we will examine the manifold relations between film landscape and screen aesthetics, national ideologies, gender politics and cultural geography.

Presentations, discussions, reading and writing assignments.

Active participation, presentation, research paper/response paper.

Prerequisite for the Master Program (812): positive completion of compulsory module 4,
for the Diploma Program (Diplomstudium: 343) and the Teacher Training Program (Lehramtsstudium: 344): completed first part of studies

For the Diploma Program (Diplomstudium: 343): SE2: American Literature/Culture, for the Teacher Training Program (Lehramtsstudium: 344): SE2: American Literature and Culture.

Due to substantial differences in the allocation of ECTS-Credits in various curricula (teacher training program - BA/MA English and American Studies), the requirements for this course vary. Information will be provided by the instructor at the beginning of the course.

05.10.2017
Group 0
Date Time Location
Thu 2017-10-05
15.30 - 17.00 40130 40130 Barrier-free
Thu 2017-10-12
15.30 - 17.00 40130 40130 Barrier-free
Thu 2017-10-19
15.30 - 17.00 40130 40130 Barrier-free
Thu 2017-11-09
15.30 - 17.00 40130 40130 Barrier-free
Thu 2017-11-16
15.30 - 17.00 40130 40130 Barrier-free
Thu 2017-11-23
15.30 - 17.00 40130 40130 Barrier-free
Thu 2017-11-30
15.30 - 17.00 40130 40130 Barrier-free
Thu 2017-12-07
15.30 - 17.00 40130 40130 Barrier-free
Thu 2017-12-14
15.30 - 17.00 40130 40130 Barrier-free
Thu 2018-01-11
15.30 - 17.00 40130 40130 Barrier-free
Thu 2018-01-18
15.30 - 17.00 40130 40130 Barrier-free
Thu 2018-01-25
15.30 - 17.00 40130 40130 Barrier-free
Thu 2018-02-01
15.30 - 17.00 40130 40130 Barrier-free