CPLT 046: Representing the Holocaust in Words and Images

2014-15 2015-16 →
changes (lax) changes (strict) ▾ 2019-20 → 2017-18 →

Units: 4

Hours: Lecture, 3 hours; screening, 3 hours

Catalog page 171

Description: Introduces representations of the Holocaust in documentary and narrative film, literature, and painting. Explores notions such as memory, mourning, trauma, spectatorship, and atrocity to come to terms with different responses to the Holocaust. Topics include memorialization, stigmatization, the ethics of historical representation, and black humor.

Cross-listing: Cross-listed with GER 046.