GERM152 PO - Drama in German Film, Theater and Radio

When Offered: Fall 2024
Instructor(s): F. von Schwerin-High
Credit: 1

This course examines representative German plays, films, and radio plays that dramatically enact wide-ranging critiques of existing power structures in society and recent history. In addition to formal analyses of performance techniques, the course uses considerations of gender, class, race, and their intersectionality as analytical tools. Performance pieces and film dramas to be discussed may include, among others, Nowhere in Africa, Head On, Life of Others, Fear Eats the Soul, Good Woman of Szechuan, Good God of Manhattan, The Visit, Metropolis, Dalliance, Mary Magdalene, Mary Queen of Scotts, Faust, and Emilia Galotti. Course is taught in German.  Prerequisites: GERM 044 PO . Previously offered as GERM152H  PO.
Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
Language Requirement; Speaking Intensive

This course information is from the 2023-2024 Pomona College Catalog. View this catalog.
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