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information
 In
this year's installment of the German Film Institute
we plan to concentrate on films of the Adenauer era.
This undertaking coincides with forthcoming Goethe-Institut
film packages on the German Heimatfilm and "German
Film after the War and the before the Wall." More
than two dozen films from the 1950s will become available
in subtitled copies; they will circulate in the United
States during the coming year. This influx of new possibilities
surely will allow an important and timely opportunity
to extend our classroom repertoire and our own knowledge
of German film history. Would it not be worthwhile to
rethink the foregone conclusions and obligatory scenarios
of previous approaches to films of the 1950s?
With these additional films now available for our teaching
and research, in the midst of debates about the global,
transnational, and the national, we believe that it
is indeed an intriguing moment to reconsider work from
the Adenauer era.
We plan to conduct the seminars and workshops as open
forums. As ever, we will allot a substantial amount
of time for close analyses of exemplary sequences. We
will prepare bibliographies to help you in your preparations;
we will also pass out handouts on a host of related
topics during the institute. We would like the discussion
to be focused and incisive and, as in past institutes,
dynamic and productive. As ever, we will consider a
corpus of films within pertinent theoretical, analytical,
and comparative perspectives.
Dorm rooms have been reserved for participants in Butterfield,
which is located to the right of Tuck Drive, near the
Rockefeller Center. Link: campus
map.
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