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German Film And The Frankfurt School (Spring 2012), Robert D. Tobin
German Film And The Frankfurt School (Spring 2012), Robert D. Tobin
Syllabi
German Film and the Frankfurt School is an introduction to German cinema and media criticism. It will introduce students to important German films that have had a global impact, significant theoretical approaches to those films (especially those from the “Frankfurt School”), and the historical and cultural contexts in which these films and film theories arose. The class is cross-listed in German, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, and Screen Studies. It provides a survey of an important art-form in German cultural history. Although National Socialism, the Holocaust and the Second World War are not the only themes of the course, they are …
German Film And The Frankfurt School (Spring 2009), Robert D. Tobin
German Film And The Frankfurt School (Spring 2009), Robert D. Tobin
Syllabi
This course is an introduction to German cinema. We will study masterpieces of German film, important critical and theoretical discussions of them, and the contexts in which they were produced and received. As a critical lens, we will rely heavily on psychoanalytic and Frankfurt School criticism, focusing on writings by Walter Benjamin, Siegfried Kracauer and Theodor Adorno. By the end of the semester, students should know the history of German film, have a better understanding of German culture, and have developed a critical understanding that is useful for their appreciation of all cinematic form.
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German Film (Spring 2002) (Whitman College), Robert D. Tobin
German Film (Spring 2002) (Whitman College), Robert D. Tobin
Syllabi
This course was taught by Robert Tobin at Whitman College. Professor Tobin worked at Whitman for 18 years as associate dean of the faculty and chair of the humanities, and was named Cushing Eells Professor of the Humanities. Several of the courses he developed at Whitman would make the transition to Clark, where they continued to evolve.
"This course is an introduction to German cinema. Students will study masterpieces of German cinema, important critical discussion of them, and the context in which they arose."