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Lecture
WiSe 18/19: American Modernities
Alexander Starre
Comments
This lecture course covers American culture between World War I and World War II: an era which saw the birth of new technologies of production, representation, and destruction as well as far-ranging revolutions in the organization of knowledge. Many of these transformations can be witnessed in a prototypical fashion in the United States. With the impact of European modernism on the American scene, U.S. artists, critics, and intellectuals increasingly felt the urge to explore how to connect cultural production to life in the emergent modern world of the twentieth century. Topics covered in this lecture course include: the Great War and modernist aesthetics; the “New Negro” movement and the Harlem Renaissance; New Deal culture; the Hollywood studio system. We will address writers such as Gertrude Stein, Richard Wright, Ernest Hemingway, Willa Cather, Nella Larsen, Langston Hughes, and Ezra Pound, as well as cultural artifacts in various medial forms, among them radio broadcasts (Amos ‘n’ Andy), Hollywood films (The Jazz Singer, Stagecoach, Casablanca, Gone with the Wind), comics, photographs, and visual art. close
16 Class schedule
Regular appointments
Thu, 2018-10-18 16:00 - 18:00
Thu, 2018-10-25 16:00 - 18:00
Thu, 2018-11-01 16:00 - 18:00
Thu, 2018-11-08 16:00 - 18:00
Thu, 2018-11-15 16:00 - 18:00
Thu, 2018-11-22 16:00 - 18:00
Thu, 2018-11-29 16:00 - 18:00
Thu, 2018-12-06 16:00 - 18:00
Thu, 2018-12-13 16:00 - 18:00
Thu, 2018-12-20 16:00 - 18:00
Thu, 2019-01-10 16:00 - 18:00
Thu, 2019-01-17 16:00 - 18:00
Thu, 2019-01-24 16:00 - 18:00
Thu, 2019-01-31 16:00 - 18:00
Thu, 2019-02-07 16:00 - 18:00
Thu, 2019-02-14 16:00 - 18:00