GER2023

2006/7 Module Catalogue

Module Code: GER2023

Module Title: CONTEMPORARY GERMAN FILM COMEDIES

Module Provider: The Language Centre	Short Name: LIG257	Previous Short Name: LIG257
Level: HE2	Module Co-ordinator: HEIPCKE CJ Ms (Cult & Comm)
Number of credits: 10	Number of ECTS credits: 5

Module Delivery

Autumn semester, 2 hours per week

Assessment Requirements

Module Overview

Prerequisites/Co-requisites

Compulsory Level 1 modules

Module Aims

By the end of this course, successful students will have learned about the issues of contemporary German film comedies, such as the German relationship with its Nazi past, Gender relations, the fall of the Wall and reunification.

Learning Outcomes

Module Content

Students will view films by Doris Dörrie (Männer, 1985), Helmut Dietl (Schtonk 1992), Detlev Buck (Wir können auch anders, 1992), Wolfgang Becker (Das Leben ist eine Baustelle,1997), and Leander Haussmann (Sonnenallee, 1999, Herr Lehmann, 2003) and discuss them with regards to their film aesthetics and their socio-historical significance.

Methods of Teaching/Learning

The films will be watched and discussed in class, in part as student-led presentations

*Components of Assessment*	*Method(s)*	*Percentage weighting*
Coursework	2 film reviews (700 words each). Each will count as 50%.	100%

Selected Texts/Journals

A reader containing information on the films will be distributed at the beginning of the course.

The following secondary sources will be found useful:

History of German film

Allan, Seán and John Sandford (eds.) (1999), Defa: East German Cinema, 1946-1992

New York/London.

Carter, Erica, Tim Bergfelder and Deniz Göktürk (2002), The German Cinema Book. London.

Carter, Erica, „What is German cinema? Approaches to German film.“ In: Helen Hughes, Martin Brady (eds.) (2000), Deutschland im Spiegel seiner Filme. London, S. 81-95.

Elsaesser, Thomas (1989), New German Cinema. A History. Houndmills u.a.

Freyermuth, Gundolf S. (1993), Der Übernehmer. Volker Schlöndorff in Babelsberg.

Heipcke, Corinna J., „Film.“ In: German Culture and Society. The Essential Glossary. Ed. Holger Briel. London 2002, pp. 43-45.

Hughes, Helen and Martin Brady, „German Film after the Wende.“ In: The New Germany: Social, Political and Cultureal Challenges of Unification. Ed. Derek Lewis nas John R.P. McKenzie. Exeter,1995, pp.276-296.

Kreimeier, Klaus (1992), Die Ufa-Story. Geschichte eines Filmkonzerns. München, Wien.

Film theory

Kracauer, Siegfried (1985), Theorie des Films. Die Errettung der äußeren Wirklichkeit. Frankfurt a. M.

Monaco, James (1977), How to Read a Film. New York.

Monaco, James und Hans-Michael Bok (Hrsg.) (2002), Film verstehen. Hamburg.

Internet sources on films shown in class

Männer

http://homepages.compuserve.de/WunderlichDieter/Dorrie_manner.htm

Inhaltsangabe

http://www.cinegraph.de/lexikon/Doerrie_Doris/biografie.html

Biographie Dorris Dörrie

http://www.filmstar.de/entertainment/stars/d/doris_doerrie.html