The course examines the representation of German culture in filmic images and literary texts over the last century. The aim is to sensitize students to the power of visual imagery in a tradition where this was banefully exploited by the Nazis, as well as providing a panoramic overview of post-war German cinema and an encounter with some major post-war writers. Questions of narrative with respect to both mediums of film and literature will be of primary importance. Memory debates around sites like Berlin's ‘Jüdisches Museum' will also be addressed.

3 contact hours/week (one lecture, one tutorial plus on average one hour's viewing per week). No really long texts - time involved outside of contact hours will vary according to reading speed in German.

Reading brick plus:

* Heinrich Böll, Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum