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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 course introduces important theoretical concepts of collective, communicative, cultural, media and post-memory and relates these approaches to different narrative and documentary films that remediate and process the visual memory of the Shoah. We will watch and analyze sequences from different movies and analyze specific motifs and tropes as well as the migration of images. The corpus includes 'classic' examples such as Schindler’s List and The Pianist as well as appropriation films such as Night and Fog and The 81st Blow and recent award winning films such as Son of Saul or Phoenix.
Course/Module aims:
This course focuses on intersections between collective Holocaust memory and cinema. It discusses films from various countries and decades in relation to concepts of cultural and collective memory. It will provide interdisciplinary knowledge in transnational cinema studies, memory studies, Holocaust and European 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 cinema in a transnational as well as film historical context.
Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
• learning about the history of Holocaust cinema as well as contemporary discourses on Holocaust memory
• analyzing films and applying knowledge of film language and aesthetics in order to understand them as social and historiographical mediators
• using and applying theoretical and empirical concepts of Holocaust memory (including memory conflicts) on popular visual culture
• conducting independent research on different films
Attendance requirements(%):
80 %
Teaching arrangement and method of instruction:
We will discuss how far films mediate visual memories from the Holocaust through the repetition and circulation of particular images or narratives. In doing so the course is based on a reevaluation of the concept of "migrating images" and juxtaposes this crucial aspect of a visual memory of the Holocaust to related concepts such as the “Traveling Memory”, “Postmemory” and "Multidirectional Memory". Students will introduce these specific memory concepts and we will relate them to specific films. A focus of the course will be on the use and reuse of specific images and narratives in films about the Holocaust.
Course/Module Content:
15-10-2018 | The Return of the Past: Migrating images
22-10-2018 | Filming the Unimaginable? Memories of the Camps
29-10-2018 | Memory Frames and Portable Memory Places
05-11-2018 | National Memory and Self-Victimization
12-11-2018 | Dramatizing the Holocaust – Visual Memories from the ‘Night of Broken Glass’ and its aftermath
19-11-2018 | The Holocaust as Visual Paradigm
26-11-2018 | Gazes from the Ghetto
03-12-2018 | Voices from the Past
10-12-2018 | Memory Ghosts
17-12-2018 | Traveling Memories
24-012-2018 | Digging the Past
31-12-2018 | Archived Pasts and Testimonies
07-01-2019 | Voices, Images, Memories
14-01-2019 | Conclusion: Fragments from the Past
Required Reading:
• Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann. Migrating Images: Iconic Images of the Holocaust and the Representation of War in Popular Film. Shofar, Vol. 28, No. 4, 2010, 86-103.
• Thomas Elsaesser. German Cinema – Terror and Trauma: Cultural Memory since 1945. London: Routledge, 2013.
• Daniel Levy, Natan Sznaider. The Holocaust and Memory in the Global Age. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2005
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.
Course/Module evaluation:
End of year written/oral examination 0 %
Presentation 20 %
Participation in Tutorials 0 %
Project work 60 %
Assignments 20 %
Reports 0 %
Research project 0 %
Quizzes 0 %
Other 0 %
Additional information:
• Oral Presentation
• Review of a Holocaust related film
• Final essay
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