This module explores key contexts, ideas, trends, directors and films associated with the New German Cinema, from the late 1960s to the late 1980s. It is...

This module explores key contexts, ideas, trends, directors and films associated with the New German Cinema, from the late 1960s to the late 1980s. It is organised around a series of core films, each of which illuminates a significant aspect or aspects of that movement. Themes include German histories of violence; the family; the so-called Economic Miracle; outsiders; revolt and protest; gender, ethnicity and identity; and various modes of formal and narrative experimentation. A diverse and representative range of directors and films will be considered.

Preparatory Reading

Geschichte des deutschen Films, ed. by Wolfgang Jacobsen, Anton Kaes and Hans Helmut Prinzler (Stuttgart: Metzler, 1993)

Thomas Elsaesser, New German Cinema: A History (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1989)

The BFI Companion to German Cinema, ed. by Thomas Elsaesser with Michael Wedel (London: British Film Institute, 1999)

Hans Günther Pflaum and Hans Helmut Prinzler, Film in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland: Der neue deutsche Film von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart: Ein Handbuch. Mit einem Exkurs über das Kino der DDR (Munich: Hanser, 1992)

Corrigan, Timothy, New German Film: The Displaced Image (Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, 1994)

Augenzeugen: 100 Texte neuer deutscher Filmemacher, ed. by Hans Helmut Prinzler and Eric Rentschler (Frankfurt am Main: Verlag der Autoren, 1988)

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This module provides an advanced understanding of the politics of East Asia. Starting with a historical look at the world&#039;s most complex system of...

This module provides an advanced understanding of the politics of East Asia. Starting with a historical look at the world's most complex system of pre-modern democracy, it sketches out how the region has changed under the pressures of development, conflict and ideology. This is a region where the involvement of outside powers continues to shape relations into the 21st century, and where economic development has occurred under a range of ideological and political regimes, from the hereditary totalitarianism of North Korea, to the vibrant democracy of Taiwan.
The module is split into thematic units (arrival of modernity, economic dynamism, potential flashpoints, memory and identity politics) through which we will explore the region's politics. By encouraging students to look inside the 'black box' of the state, the module allows for some multidisciplinary inquiry of how the region's politics intersects with social, cultural and economic questions. This enables students to have both a good grasp of contemporary issues, as well as master the conceptual frameworks essential for making sense of this populous region. 

 