GER 201

Spring 2025 Part of Term 1

Part of Term 1
Jan 21-May 7

German Popular Culture

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Credit: 3 hours.

Introduction to the study of modern and contemporary german culture through examining examples of popular culture from the late-eighteenth century to the present. Looks at texts and films as a mirror and critique of modern German society. Topics to be discussed: nationalism, gender, ethnicity, minority cultures, Jewish life in Germany, German images of other cultures, etc. Course taught in English.

This course satisfies the General Education Criteria in Fall 2022 for:

Cultural Studies - Western

Humanities – Lit & Arts

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GER 201 class schedule data for spring 2025
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	63431	Lecture-Discussion	A	12:30PM -1:50PM	TR	Henry Administration Bldg	Hunt, A	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/21/25-05/07/25 Degree Notes: Humanities - Lit & Arts, and Cultural Studies - Western course. Section Title: Tales of Horror Section Info: Vampires, zombies, doppelgänger, serial killers, ghosts, and artificial humans: this course explores the horror genre through some of its most spellbinding creatures and fantasies in a period ranging from the genre’s anti-Enlightenment beginnings to today. Though often dismissed as “low culture,” ghost stories, fairy tales, and horror films invariably provide a window onto an all-together different set of spectres that haunt a society. These tales are preoccupied with society’s doubles, mirror images, others, who reside at the margins, unmourned, or at crossroads of technology and the unconscious. We will consider the historical and political context as well as the psychoanalytical underpinnings in each horrific tale or film and we will pay close attention to the ways they establish, contain or release their horrific kernels. We will discuss how entertainment industries have fed off of and capitalised on certain social pathologies as well as how other filmmakers have sought to explore the genre’s potential for social critique. Authors range from Ludwig Tieck and the Brothers Grimm to ETA Hoffmann and Franz Kafka. Filmic contributions range from classics of Expressionist cinema like Lang’s Metropolis and Murnau’s Nosferatu to Herzog’s late-70s remake of the latter. We will end by analysing the Netflix series Dark.