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Oberlin's New German Cinema Series
Art Museum Programs Nourish Academic and Artistic Interests in German Culture
Why Expressionists Liked Woodcuts and Bold, Rapid Brush Strokes
How Some Faculty Will Use Utopia and Alienation: German Art and Expressionism, 1900-1933
German Culture Series, Schedule of Events
SEPTEMBER 16, 1999--The New German Cinema series, which runs November 7-10, will include eight films in full-screen projection. Its intent is to familiarize filmgoers with post-World War II German cinema, and help them examine the link between the German Expressionist movement and New German Cinema.
"The earliest German film sets were done by Expressionist painters, and there are many Expressionist elements in German cinema," says Steve Huff, associate professor of German.
Jost and other organizers chose New German Cinema over film more contemporary with the Expressionist movement because of its correspondence with a course on New German Cinema being taught this semester by Elizabeth Hamilton, visiting assistant professor of German.
Timothy Corrigan, professor of English at Temple University, will introduce the festival with a November 4 lecture: "The Three Faces of Lola: German Cinema before and after Fassbinder."
A member of the faculty or the museum's curatorial staff will introduce each film. Besides Hamilton and Jost, the presenters and their areas of expertise are
- Dan Goulding, professor of film studies: European films;
- Clayton Koppes, professor of history and dean of the College of Arts and Sciences: popular culture, and moral conflict;
- Pat Day, associate professor of English: imagining history in American film;
- Jeff Pence, assistant professor of English: technology and contemporary culture;
- Rita Chin, assistant professor of history: the bourgeoisie and the making of modern Europe; and
- James Morgan, visiting assistant professor of Russian: cinematic and operatic adaptations of literature.
The film list and schedule are to be announced.
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