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The course is intended to familiarize students with the relationship between media and culture by exploring a variety of historical and theoretical relationships between cinema and mining.

This seminar sets out to explore a cultural history of mining in America through film. We will examine a great variety of genres from all periods of film history, including early actuality and newsreel films, documentary film, comedy, melodrama, western and mountain films, experimental and essayistic films. We will examine cinematic representations of mining and their relation to the histories of labor and the entertainment industry as well as to questions of gender, ethnicity, environment and community development. Mining film history we hope to develop a conceptual framework that interrogates the relationship between mining and the cultural politics of the archive.

Presentations, discussions, reading and writing assignments.

Active participation, presentation, research paper/response paper.

Prerequisite for the Master Program (812): none
The Teacher Training Program (Lehramtsstudium: 344): completed first part of studies

The seminar "SE American Film, Media and Culture I" can be attended as the "SE American Literature and Culture II". If you wish to obtain credits for both seminars, the seminars' contents must differ substantially.

Students of the supplement "Filmwissenschaft" can take the course "Filmvermittlung" / "Film Culture and Film Education" (AG, 5 ECTS; LV Number 610031) instead of the VO "American Cinema, Media and Culture" (5 ECTS) or the VU "Der Film als künstlerisches und gesellschaftliches Medium" (5 ECTS).

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.