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GERM BC3215 From Text to Screen: German Literature and Film. 3 points.
Not offered during 2022-23 academic year.
Prerequisites: Sophomore standing or the equivalent or permission of the instructor.
Survey of screen adaptations of literary texts beginning with Weimar cinema and proceeding through to the present with a particular focus on cinematic modes of narration, spectatorship, and visual pleasure, as well as on the role of institutional frameworks. Readings in neo-Marxist, psychoanalytic and semiotic film theory. Texts by Wedekind, Fontane, H. Mann, and Musil and films by Pabst, Fassbinder, Wenders, and Trotta. [In English, extra sessions for German majors.]