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CLASS SCHEDULE
Week One (January 4)
Thursday
Introduction
Week Two (January 8-15)
Monday
Film: Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1942)
Tuesday
Edward Said, "Reflections on Exile" ®
Salman Rushdie, "Imaginary Homelands" ®
Homi Bhabha, "Arrivals and Departures" (in Naficy)
Thursday
Film: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Wiene, 1920)
Heilbut Exiled in Paradise pp. 1-118
Week Three (January 15-21)
Monday
Film: M (Fritz Lang, 1931)
Tuesday
Anton Kaes, M
Heilbut pp. 119-228
Thursday
Klaus Mann, Mephisto
Week Four (January 22-28)
Monday
Film: Fury (Fritz Lang, 1934)
Tuesday
Jan-Christopher Horak, "German Exile Cinema, 1933-1950" ®
Adorno, Minima Moralia pp 1-81
Thursday
Film: The Black Cat (Edgar G. Ulmer, 1934)
Heilbut pp. 229-325
Week Five (January 29-February 4)
Monday
Film: Hold Back the Dawn (Mitchell Leisen/Billy Wilder, 1941)
Tuesday
Naficy, "Framing Exile"
John Durham Peters, "Exile, Nomadism, Diaspora" (in Naficy)
Hannah Arendt, "We Refugees" ®
Thursday
Bertolt Brecht, The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui
Brecht, selected poems
Week Six (February 5-11)
Monday
Film: Hangmen Also Die (Fritz Lang/Bertolt Brecht, 1943)
Tuesday
Adorno pp. 85-157.
Klaus Mann, "What's Wrong With Anti-Nazi Films?"
Gerd Gemünden, "Brecht in Hollywood"(link works only for Dartmouth users)
Wednesday
Visit by Maurice Rapf
Thursday
Film: To Be or Not to Be (Ernst Lubitsch, 1942)
"The Production Code" ®
Thomas Elsaesser, "Ethnicity, Authenticity, and Exile" (in Naficy)
Week Seven (February 12-18)
Tuesday
Midterm
Wednesday
Film: Ace in the Hole (Billy Wilder, 1951)
9:05 pm Spaulding Auditorium $
Thursday
no class
Week Eight (February 19-25)
Monday
Film: Act of Violence (Fred Zinnemann, 1949)
Tuesday
George Simmel, "The Stranger" ®
Zygmunt Baumann, "Modernity and Ambivalence" ®
Adorno pp. 161-end
Thursday
Clips from various noirs
Heilbut pp. 325-end
Week Nine (February 26-March 4)
Monday
Film: The Stranger (Orson Welles/Victor Trivas, 1946)
Tuesday
Visit by Irene Trivas
Thursday
Film: A Foreign Affair (Billy Wilder, 1948)
Week Ten (March 5-7)
Monday
Film: Der Verlorene (Peter Lorre, 1951)
Tuesday
Curt Siodmak, "Epistles to the Germans" ®
Wednesday
Film: The Blue Angel (Josef von Sternberg, 1931)
6:45 pm Spaulding Auditorium $
Note: Syllabus is subject to change
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