Visual Histories: German Cinema 1945 to Present

German film captured the atmosphere of the immediate post-war years.

Image of a pen on movie film. (Photo courtesy of Daniel Bersak. Used with permission.)

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21G.056

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Fall 2003

Level

Undergraduate

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This course is an invitation to German film-making since the end of the Second World War. We investigate how German cinema captured the atmosphere of the immediate post-war years and discuss extensively major works of the "New German Cinema" of the Sixties and Seventies. We also look at examples of East Germany's film production and finally observe the very different roads German cinema has been taking from the 1990's into the present.

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Bernd Widdig. 21G.056 Visual Histories: German Cinema 1945 to Present. Fall 2003. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare, https://ocw.mit.edu. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA.


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