FAVz017 Screening the East German Dictatorship. A Short Course on History and Cinema of the GDR

Filozofická fakulta
podzim 2009
Rozsah
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Vyučující
Prof. Thomas Lindenberger (přednášející)
Mgr. Anna Batistová, Ph.D. (náhr. zkoušející)
Garance
doc. Mgr. Pavel Skopal, Ph.D.
Ústav filmu a audiovizuální kultury – Filozofická fakulta
Kontaktní osoba: Mgr. Anna Batistová, Ph.D.
Omezení zápisu do předmětu
Předmět je nabízen i studentům mimo mateřské obory.
Předmět si smí zapsat nejvýše 120 stud.
Momentální stav registrace a zápisu: zapsáno: 0/120, pouze zareg.: 0/120, pouze zareg. s předností (mateřské obory): 0/120
Mateřské obory/plány
Cíle předmětu
The three double-lectures deal with three periods:
1. "antifascist order", late Stalinism and muted destalinisation (until the erection of the wall)
2. the reform era until Ulbrichts demotion (61-71, also the most creative and turbulent phase in terms of GDR film history)
3. "real existing socialism" and dissolution of the GDR (71-89, more or less corresponding to the 'normalization' period in the CSSR).
A representative film for each of these periods to be screened Wednesday evening.
The structure of the double lectures:
- Introduction into the period in question: basic outlines in terms of political, social, cultural history, state of research, with a particular emphasis on media, public spheres, propaganda
- cinema policy of the SED, the film industry, the film profession, conflicts on censorship
- an overview of DEFA production with regard to quantity and quality, in relation to international trends
- an exemplary focus on one typical production and its political, cultural etc. context, its resonance with the GDR and international public.
At the end of the course students will:
- be able to interpret the period cinema production in the context of the cultural politics;
- understand better the possibilities of research in relation between cinema and politics;
- acquire a deeper knowledge of the cinema in GDR;
- be able to compare the GDR cinema with the development in Czechoslovakian cinema between 1945 and 1989.
Osnova
  • Introduction into the period in question: basic outlines in terms of political, social, cultural history, state of research, with a particular emphasis on media, public spheres, propaganda
  • - cinema policy of the SED, the film industry, the film profession, conflicts on censorship
  • - an overview of DEFA production with regard to quantity and quality, in relation to international trends
  • - an exemplary focus on one typical production and its political, cultural etc. context, its resonance with the GDR and international public.
Literatura
  • Feinstein, Joshua: The Triumph of the Ordinary. Depictions of Daily Life in the East German Cinema, 1949-1989 (Chapel Hill / London : North Carolina University Press 2002), ch. 2 (45-77) & ch. 4 (110-136).
  • O’Dochartaigh, Pol: ‘Americanizing the Holocaust: The Case of Jakob the Liar’, in Modern Languages Review 2006, 101.
  • Bathrick, David: ‘Holocaust Film before the Holocaust: DEFA, Antifascism and the Camps’, in CiNéMAS. Revue d’études cinématographiques 18 (2007) 1, pp.109-134.
  • Hake, Sabine: German National Cinema, Routledge: London 2002, pp. 119-132: ‘The New Wave and the Eleventh Plenary’
  • Allen, Seán: ‘DEFA: An Historical Overview’, in Allan, Seán, and John Sandford (eds), DEFA: East German Cinema, 1946-1992. New York: Berghahn Books, 1999, 1-21.
Výukové metody
Lectures
Screenings
Home reading assignments
Metody hodnocení
Full time students: 100% presence at the lectures is required. Distance students: two absences are tolerated. Colloquium: written test.
Vyučovací jazyk
Angličtina
Informace učitele
Bloková výuka zahraničních hostů probíhá v průběhu jednoho týdne. Přednášky kurzů s každotýdenní výukou, které se budou překrývat s výukou hostů, se nekonají.
The schedule:
18 November, 13.20-15.00
19 NOvember, 10.00-11.40
2 December, 13.20-15.00
3 December, 10.00-11.40
16 December, 13.20-15.00
17 December, 10.00-11.40
Thomas Lindenberger is project director at the Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam and teaches modern history at Potsdam University. His research and publications deal with the social and cultural history of twentieth-century Germany and Europe. Since 2009, he is the director of Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for European History and Public Sphere.
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