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HU Credits:
2
Degree/Cycle:
2nd degree (Master)
Responsible Department:
Communication & Journalism
Semester:
1st Semester
Teaching Languages:
English
Campus:
Mt. Scopus
Course/Module Coordinator:
Dr. Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann
Coordinator Office Hours:
Mondays, 12:00-14:00
Teaching Staff:
Dr. Tobias Ebbrecht Hartmann
Course/Module description:
The representation of the Holocaust became a central topic in global visual culture over the last decades. Besides certain generic forms how to present the tragic events of the past, especially films communicated particular narrative and stylistic concepts of visual memory. This course focuses on intersections between Holocaust memory and visual media. It discusses films from various countries and decades in relation to present challenges of commemorating the Holocaust in the 21st century and various concepts of cultural and collective memory.
Disclaimer: this course deals with sensitive topics and contains graphic and disturbing imagery!
Course/Module aims:
The course will provide interdisciplinary knowledge in cinema studies, media studies and memory studies. The aim of the course is enabling the students to analyze visual culture in relation to social and historical discourses and to situate current visual culture in context of global memory cultures and within the historical context of visual media.
Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
• learning about the history of Holocaust cinema and other visual representations of the Holocaust
• engaging into contemporary discourses on Holocaust memory
• analysing films and other visual and digital media, and applying knowledge of narrative and stylistic conventions in order to understand media of memory as social and historiographical mediators in the global age
• using and applying theoretical and empirical concepts of Holocaust memory (including memory conflicts) on popular visual and digital culture
• conducting independent research on different films, digital culture products and platforms
Attendance requirements(%):
100 %
Teaching arrangement and method of instruction:
The course is a self-learning online course, which is divided in four modules, an introduction and a conclusion. The sessions are synchronized with the weeks of the semester. However, the course lets you choose the time when you want to learn and how fast you want to go. Each module consists of three topics and a key text (a theoretical article connecting more generally with the theme of the module). Each module will be concluded with an assignment, a short essay on a specific aspect related to the module’s focus.
Course/Module Content:
Week 1 | Introduction: Migrating Images of the Holocaust
MODUL 1: EVIDENCE, DOCUMENT, ICON
Week 2 | Exploring the Archive
Week 3 | Gazes and Traces
Week 4 | Memories of the Camps
MODUL 2: CINEMATIC MEMORY OF THE HOLOCAUST
Week 5 | Representing the Unimaginable
Week 6 | The Present of the Past
Week 7 | Echoes from the Past
MODUL 3: THE ERA OF TESTIMONY
Week 8 | The Advent of the Witness
Week 9 | Topographies of Witnessing
Week 10 | Archive(d) Testimony
MODUL 4: VISUAL AFTERLIVES
Week 11 | Imagined Past
Week 12 | Palimpsests of Witnessing
Week 13 | Beyond the Image
Week 14 | Conclusion: From Holocaust to Eva Stories
Required Reading:
Assmann, Aleida. “Transformations of Holocaust Memory: Frames of Transmission an Mediation.” In: Holocaust-Cinema in the Twenty-First Century: Memory, Images, and the Ethics of Representation. Ed. Oleksandr Kobrynskyy and Gerd Bayer. New York: Wallflower, 2015. 23-40.
Ebbrecht, Tobias. “Migrating Images: Iconic Images of the Holocaust and the Representation of War in Popular Film.” Shofar, 28:4 (2010). 86-103.
A full reading list will be provided at the beginning of the seminar.
Additional Reading Material:
A full reading list will be provided at the beginning of the seminar.
Grading Scheme :
Submission assignments during the semester: Exercises / Essays / Audits / Reports / Forum / Simulation / others 100 %
Additional information:
Course requirements:
1. Active participation and independent preparation of weekly reading material
2. Four short review essays (1 page) on the key texts – 20%
3. Four short essays related (3-5 pages, 12 pt. Double Space including references and bibliography) to each module – 80%
It is also possible to write Seminar papers (25-30 Pages, 12 pt., Double Space) in this course; an abstract, research question and draft bibliography has to be submitted until 7 January 2024. Final submission deadline for the seminar paper is 10 March 2024.
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