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Vertiefungsseminar
SoSe 16: Writing, Picturing, Performing the Great Depression
Birte Wege
Kommentar
‘The Great Depression’ evokes a number of distinct images. After the glitter and hedonism of the Jazz Age, the Roaring Twenties, came the grit of the Dust Bowl, poverty, migrant workers, the specter of rising Fascism in Europe, political unrest at home – but also the glamour of classic Hollywood and the hope of the New Deal. This seminar will explore the breadth of themes and images associated with the Great Depression, and the variety of media which seek to capture this complex and vibrant era. We will examine a range of narrative forms, both from the 1930s and later (re)imaginings of the Great Depression, combining discussion of content with theoretical work on subjects ranging from social realism to photography and graphic narrative. Readings will include classics like John Steinbeck’s novel The Grapes of Wrath and James Agee and Walker Evan’s photo-essay Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, as well as more recent novels, works of the Federal Theatre Project, movies, TV series, comics and wordless woodcut novels. Schließen
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