ENGL 578

Spring 2015

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Credit: 4 hours.

May be repeated if topics vary. Prerequisite: One year of graduate study of literature or consent of instructor.

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CRN Type Section Time Day Location Instructor Section Details
54471
Lecture-Discussion
Lecture-Discussion
T
T
3:00PM -4:50PM
5:00PM -7:50PM
R
M
113 English Building
148 Armory
Rothberg, M
Kaganovsky, L
Rothberg, M
Kaganovsky, L
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
01/20/15-05/06/15
Section Title:
Documentary Aesthetics
Section Info:
Topic Section T: Documentary Aesthetics: History, Memory, Trauma This seminar will focus on non-fiction cinematic works that depict and reflect on key moments in twentieth-century history. It will be team-taught by Lilya Kaganovsky, a scholar of Russian and Soviet film, and Michael Rothberg, a scholar of memory, trauma, and genocide. In order to explore the documentary impulse as a broad aesthetic tendency, we will juxtapose film with other documentary experiments in photography, literature, and painting. We will be especially interested in works that thematize memory, trauma, testimony, and forgetting and engage with some of the most extreme events of the last century, including World War II, the Holocaust, and the Leningrad Blockade as well as the formation and deformation of the Soviet and Nazi states and the upheavals of the 1960s. Drawing on experiments with documentary form by American, French, German, Israeli, and Soviet/post-Soviet filmmakers, we will pursue questions of referentiality, aesthetics, and archiving and inquire into the politics of non-fiction representation. Discussion of particular films will be supplemented by critical and theoretical work on documentary cinema, cultural memory, trauma, and historical representation.
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Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
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