Universität Wien

170122 UE Grenzüberschreitung im Europäischen Kino (2010W)

Continuous assessment of course work

Blocktermine im Schreyvogelsaal am Di 5.10. und Mi 6.10. jeweils von 13-17 Uhr
Blocktermine im Jura Soyfer-Saal am Sa 20.11. und So 21.11. jeweils von 17-20; Do 9.12. 9-12, Sa 12.12. 9-14 und Mo 13.12. von 15-17 Uhr

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Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).

Details

max. 70 participants
Language: German

Lecturers

Classes

Currently no class schedule is known.

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Aims, contents and method of the course

Filmmaking today is more and more depending on a global and transnational production envirment. Thus also many films are depicting transnational or tanscultural conflicts and stories. What does this mean in context of Euopean cinema? Europe as a transnational cinematic space is focus of this seminar. Analyzing films from several European countries it will be discussed what impact transnational and transcultural border crossing has on the aesthetics of these films and how this infects the definition of a recent European cinema.

Assessment and permitted materials

Active participation, oral presentation with handout or written essay, final paper

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Anaylisis and historical, theoretical, political and social contextualization of movies from different national cinemas within the European context.
Understanding of theoretical ideas and concepts in context of recent trends in the European film culture

Examination topics

Preparation of material, analyzing sequences, presentations, working groups

Reading list

- Tim Bergfelder (2005) National, transnational or supranational cinema? Rethinking European film studies. In: Media, Culture & Society, Vol. 27/3, 315-331 (zur ersten Sitzung lesen)
- Ricarda Strobel/Andreas Jahn-Sudmann (Hg.): Film transnational und transkulturell. Europäische und amerikanische Perspektiven. München: Fink, 2009 (Hintergründe und Grundlagen)
- Beck, Ulrich: Der kosmopolitische Blick oder: Krieg ist Frieden, Frankfurt/M.: Suhrkamp, 2004 (Hintergrund)
- Naficy, Hamid: An Accented Cinema: Exilic and Diasporic Filmmaking, Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2001 (Hintergrund)
- Sznaider, Natan: Gedächtnisraum Europa. Die Visionen des europäischen Kosmopolitismus. Eine jüdische Perspektive, Bielefeld: transcript, 2008 (Hintergrund)

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