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Spring 2007 048:112 Proseminar in Cinema and Culture<br />
<strong>GERMAN</strong> <strong>CINEMA</strong>: <strong>FROM</strong> <strong>DIVISION</strong> <strong>TO</strong> <strong>POST</strong>-<strong>UNIFICATION</strong><br />
Course hours: Th 7-11pm in 101 BCSB<br />
Course instructor: Claudia Pummer (claudia-pummer@uiowa.edu)<br />
Office hours: Th 6-6:45pm and by appointment in W241 AJB<br />
COURSE DESCRIPTION<br />
Designed as a weekly screening series followed by a one-hour discussion the course focuses on<br />
German films made between 1946-2004. By tracing the political and historical trajectory from the<br />
postwar era of reconstruction to the cold war to German unification, we will take a look across a<br />
divided and reunited screen-scape in order to critically reflect on concepts of German nationality,<br />
cultural identity, and the politics of representation.<br />
REQUIREMENTS<br />
Students can register for 1 s.h. and will receive either a mark of Satisfactory or Unsatisfactory<br />
(S/U). In order to pass this course, you are required to attend the screenings and participate in<br />
the discussions. You are further encouraged to engage with a small number of recommended<br />
readings (see attached bibliography). A few introductory readings are available for download at<br />
the ICON course website. Go to: http://icon.uiowa.edu/index.shtml. Log in using your hawkID and<br />
password, click on link "Proseminar in Cinema and Culture" where the readings can be found<br />
under "Content."<br />
ACCOMODATIONS<br />
Anyone with a disability who may require modification of seating or other requirements should<br />
notify me immediately by email or see me during my office hours.<br />
COMPLAINTS<br />
Students with complaints regarding this course should first attempt to discuss their concerns with<br />
me. If we cannot come to a resolution, you should contact the course supervisor Prof. Corey<br />
Creekmur (corey-creekmur@uiowa.edu, W211 AJB, (319) 335-2824) or the CCL department<br />
chair Prof. Steven Ungar (steven-ungar@uiowa.edu, (319) 335-0330).<br />
DROPPING THIS COURSE<br />
This course is given by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Class policies on matters such<br />
as requirements, grading, and sanctions for academic dishonesty are governed by the College of<br />
Liberal Arts and Sciences. Students wishing to add or drop this course after the official deadline<br />
must receive the approval of the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Details of the<br />
University policy of cross enrollments and all other information on students' rights and<br />
responsibilities can be found in the College’s Student Academic Handbook<br />
http://www.clas.uiowa.edu/students/academic_handbook/ix.shtml.
Spring 2007 048:112 Proseminar in Cinema and Culture<br />
Course Schedule<br />
Jan 18 The Murderers Are Among Us / Die Mörder Sind Unter Uns (Wolfgang Staudte, Germany,<br />
1946, 87 ', 35mm)<br />
Jan 25 Berlin-Schönhauser Corner / Berlin-Ecke Schönhauser (Gerhard Klein, East Germany,<br />
1957, 82 ', 35mm)<br />
The Hooligans / Die Halbstarken (Georg Tressler, West Germany, 1956, 89 ')<br />
Feb 1 The Divided Heaven / Der Geteilte Himmel (Konrad Wolf, East Germany, 1963, 109',<br />
16mm)<br />
Feb 8 The Trace of Stones / Spur der Steine (Frank Beyer, East Germany, 1966/1990, 138',<br />
35mm)<br />
Feb 15 Oskar Langenfeld (Holger Meins, West Germany, 1966, 13 ')<br />
Inextinguishable Fire / Nicht Löschbares Feuer (Harun Farocki, West Germany, 1969,<br />
25 ')<br />
Not Reconciled or Only Violence Helps Where Violence Rules / Nicht Versöhnt oder Es<br />
Herrscht Nur Gewalt, Wo Gewalt Herrscht (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet, West<br />
Germany, 1965, 55', 35mm)<br />
Feb 22 All-around Reduced Personality-REDUPERS / Die Allseitig-reduzierte Persönlichkeit<br />
ReDuPers (Helke Sander, West Germany, 1977, 98', 16mm)<br />
Mar 1 The Legend of Paul and Paula /Die Legende von Paul und Paula (Heiner Carow, East<br />
Germany, 1972, 106', 35mm)<br />
Mar 8 Winnetou II – Last of the Renegades (Harald Reinl, West Germany, 1964, 94')<br />
Apaches / Apachen (Gottfried Kolditz, East Germany, 1973, 98')<br />
Mar 22 Schtonk! (Helmut Dietl, Germany, 1992, 115')<br />
Mar 29 Between (Claudia Schillinger, West Germany, 1989, 10')<br />
The German Chainsaw Massacre / Das Deutsche Kettensägenmassaker (Christoph<br />
Schlingensief, Germany, 1991, 63')<br />
Former East/Former West (Shelly Silver, USA/Germany, 1994, 62')<br />
Apr 5 Konrad! The Mother Said / Konrad! Sprach die Frau Mama (Ramona Köppel-Welsh, East<br />
Germany, 1989, 1989, 10')<br />
I'll show you my Life – Marieluise, A Child of Golzow / Da Habt Ihr Mein Leben<br />
Marieluise Kind von Golzow (Barbara & Winfried Junge, (East)Germany, 1961-1997, 141',<br />
35mm)<br />
Apr 12 September, September (Gino Hahnemann, East Germany, 1989, 6')<br />
No Place To Go / Die Unberührbare (Oskar Roehler, Germany, 1999, 100', 16mm)<br />
Apr 19 Head-On / Gegen die Wand (Fatih Akin, Germany/Turkey, 2003, 118')<br />
Apr 26 A Miracle / Ein Wunder (Stanislaw Mucha, Germany, 1998, 7')<br />
Distant Lights / Lichter (Hans-Christian Schmid, Germany, 2003, 105 ', 16mm)<br />
May 3 Go For Zucker! / Alles Auf Zucker! (Dani Levy, Germany, 2004, 90')
Spring 2007 048:112 Proseminar in Cinema and Culture<br />
German Cinema – Overview<br />
Bibliography<br />
Bergfelder, Tim, Erica Carter and Deniz Göktürk, ed. The German Cinema Book. London: BFI<br />
Publishing, 2002.<br />
Elsaesser, Thomas and Michael Wedel. The BFI Companion to German Cinema. London: BFI<br />
Publishing, 1999.<br />
Frieden Sandra et al., eds. Gender and German Cinema: Feminist Interventions. Providence:<br />
Berg, 1993.<br />
Ginsberg, Terri and Kirsten Moana Thompson. Perspectives on German Cinema. New York: G.K.<br />
Hall and London: Prentice Hall International, 1996.<br />
Hake, Sabine. German National Cinema. London & New York: Routledge, 2002.<br />
Halle, Randall and Margaret McCarthy, eds. Light Motives: German Popular Film in Perspective.<br />
Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2003.<br />
Majer O'Sickey and Ingeborg von Zadow, eds. Triangulated Visions: Women in Recent German<br />
Cinema. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998.<br />
Shandley, Robert R. Rubble Films: German Cinema in the Shadow of the Third Reich.<br />
Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2001.<br />
West German Cinema<br />
Corrigan, Timothy. New German Film: The Displaced Image. Austin: University of Texas Press,<br />
1983.<br />
Davidson, John E. Deterritorializing the New German Cinema. Minneapolis & London: University<br />
of Minnesota Press, 1999.<br />
Elsaesser, Thomas. New German Cinema: A History. London: BFI & Houndsmills: Macmillan,<br />
1989.<br />
Fehrenbach, Heide. Cinema in Democratizing Germany: Reconstructing National Identity after<br />
Hitler. Chapel Hill: University of Carolina Press, 1995.<br />
Flinn, Caryl. The New German Cinema: Music, History, and the Matter of Style. Berkeley:<br />
University of California Press, 2004.<br />
Kaes, Anton. From Hitler to Heimat: The Return of History as Film. Cambridge: Harvard<br />
University Press, 1989.<br />
Knight, Julia. New German Cinema: Images of a Generation. London & New York: Wallflower,<br />
2004.<br />
Knight, Julia. Women and the New German Cinema. London & New York: Verso, 1992.<br />
Pflaum, Hans Günther. Germany on Film: Theme and Content in the Cinema of the Federal<br />
Republic of Germany. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1990.
Spring 2007 048:112 Proseminar in Cinema and Culture<br />
Rentschler, Eric. West German Filmmakers on Film: Visions and Voices. New York: Holmes &<br />
Meier, 1988.<br />
Santner, Eric L. Stranded Objects: Mourning, Memory, and Film in Postwar Germany. Ithaca:<br />
Cornell University Press, 1990.<br />
East German Cinema<br />
Allan, Seán and John Sanford, eds. DEFA: East German Cinema, 1946-1992. New York:<br />
Berghahn Books, 1999.<br />
Berghahn, Daniela. Hollywood Behind the Wall: The Cinema of East Germany. Manchester &<br />
New York: Manchester University Press, 2005.<br />
Bock, Hans-Michael. "East Germany: The DEFA Story." The Oxford History of World Cinema. Ed.<br />
Geoffery Nowell-Smith. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. 627-632.<br />
Byg, Baron and Betheny Moore. Moving Images of East Germany: Past and Future of DEFA<br />
Film. AICGS Humanities Volume 12, 2002.<br />
[can be accessed online: http://www.aicgs.org/documents/gdr.pdf]<br />
Feinstein, Joshua. The Triumph of the Ordinary: Depictions of Daily Life in the East German<br />
Cinema, 1949-1989. Chapel Hill & London: University of North Carolina Press, 2002.<br />
Silberman, Marc. What Remains? East German Culture and the Postwar Republic, AICGS<br />
Humanities Volume 2, 1997.<br />
[can be accessed online: http://www.aicgs.org/documents/silberman.pdf]<br />
German cinema since the Unification<br />
Clarke, David, ed. German Cinema: Since Unification. London & New York: Continuum, 2006.<br />
Naughton, Leonie. That Was the Wild East: Film Culture, Unification, and the 'New' Germany.<br />
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2002.<br />
Online Resources<br />
DEFA Film Library<br />
University of Massachussetts, Amherst<br />
http://www.umass.edu/defa/<br />
Goethe Institute New York – Film Archive<br />
http://www.goethe.de/ins/us/lp/prj/flm/enindex.htm<br />
AICGS-Reports on German Culture<br />
The American Institute for Contemporary German Studies, John Hopkins University<br />
http://www.aicgs.org/analysis/publications/culture.aspx<br />
German Films Service and Marketing<br />
http://www.german-films.de/<br />
German Film Guide and movie indeces<br />
http://german.about.com/library/weekly/aa021010a.htm
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