Topic: Film and the Holocaust

Appropriate for First Year students.

TimeDaysLocationInstructorGERCreditOPUS Class NumberSyllabus (Tentative)
1:00pm-2:30pm
6:00pm-8:00pm
MW
Tu
Candler Library 212
Candler Library 212
Deborah Lipstadt. FSEM. 412825 TBA.

January 13, 2010- April 26, 2010

Crosslisted: REL190-000.

Catalog Description: Designed to engage first-year students in aspects of inquiry and research into areas of Jewish religion, culture, history, or language. Topics will vary.

Semester Details:

Film and the Holocaust:  This seminar will examine a series of documentaries, propaganda films, and feature productions about the Holocaust.  We will determine how true the filmmaker is to historical evidence and their “purpose” in making the film.  Among the films we will analyze are Triumph des Willens/Triumph of the Will (1934), Jud Suss (1940), Diary of Anne Frank (1959), Judgment at Nuremberg (1961), Garden of Finzi Continis (1971), Visitor from the Living (1997), and Schindler’s List (1993),  Downfall (2004),  The Reader(2009) and Inglourious Basterds (2009). 

The schedule of courses on O.P.U.S. is the official listing of courses, including days and times they meet and the General Education Requirements they satisfy. Students should use course descriptions as general guidelines. Course requirements, grading details, book lists, and syllabi are subject to change.