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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.