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GERM 433 - Senior Seminar: Staging Revolution

Mode(s) of Instruction: Hybrid
FC ARHU CD WADV
4 credits
Can artistic techniques encourage audiences to embrace a radical politics, instigate social change, or create a more critical spectator? This course explores the relationship between aesthetics and politics in film and theater through the works of playwright Bertolt Brecht. After studying concepts and practices of the epic theater, we’ll be equipped to investigate film adaptations and productions of Brecht’s plays; German heirs to the epic theater; and avant-garde films by Jean-Luc Godard, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Alexander Kluge, and Lars von Trier.
Prerequisites & Notes: Two 300-level courses in German or instructor consent.
Course Last Offered/Scheduled: Spring 2021


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