MCS 118G: Film and the Holocaust

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Units: 4

Hours: Lecture, 3 hours; screening, 3 hours

Catalog page 446

Prerequisites: upper-division standing or consent of instructor

Description: Examines the moral, philosophical, and cultural legacy of the Holocaust in documentary and narrative films. Films and selected theoretical and literary texts involve key issues such as truthfulness, politicization, marginalization, universalization, trivialization, abstraction, representation of trauma, abstraction, aestheticization, and testimonies.

Cross-listing: Cross-listed with GER 118G.