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WiSe 21/22: American Modernities

Frank Kelleter

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This lecture course deals with American culture between the 1910s and the 1940s: a period that saw the birth of new technologies of production, representation, and destruction, along with far-ranging revolutions in the organization of knowledge. Sociology, ethnology, psychoanalysis, and other disciplines emerged in the early 20th century as institutionalized modes of theorizing modernity. Many of these “modern” transformations can be studied in a prototypical fashion in US history. Our topics in this lecture course include: early film; the New Immigration; the Hollywood studio system; the Great War and modernist aesthetics (fiction, poetry, drama); the “New Negro” movement and the Harlem Renaissance; radio and New Deal culture; the Southern agrarians and anti-modern modernisms. ----- The lecture course serves as “Vorlesung” of Culture-Module C (Kulturgeschichte einzelner Medien und ästhetischer Darstellungsformen) in the M.A. program. Registration: All participants need to be registered via Blackboard and Campus Management by the first session. If you cannot register online, please contact Prof. Kelleter before the beginning of the term. Requirements and Organization: See Syllabus and Course Description in the “Teaching” section of Prof. Kelleter’s JFKI website or on Blackboard (go to “Kursmaterial”; you may have to click on “open Syllabus here” to download it; if this doesn’t work, try a different browser: students have reported problems with the Chrome browser).b Depending on the COVID19-situation in the fall, this course will be offered either as a classroom course (on campus) or as an asynchronous online course. Please note that it is listed as a three-hour “Vorlesung mit integriertem Tutorium.” The idea is to give us a more flexible time-slot in case of mandatory “Hygienemaßnahmen” (such as checking Corona tests or airing the room midway through a session), but also to provide additional time for Q&A. Ideally, however, participants will gain credit on the basis of the regular (two-hour, 4-6) lecture slot; attendance of the additional hour (“tutorial”, 6-7) will be optional. First session: October 26 (note: this is the second week of the semester). Schließen

15 Termine

Regelmäßige Termine der Lehrveranstaltung

Di, 16:00 - 19:00 15 Termine

Di, 26.10.2021 16:00 - 19:00

Dozenten:
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Frank Kelleter