#  German 154. The Frankfurt School on Film and Mass Culture 

 





 Semester:   Fall 

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 Year offered:  2023 

 

 

 

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###  Day/Time

 T 12:45PM - 2:45PM

###  Instructor

 TBA

 This seminar considers the Frankfurt School's deliberations on film, radio, television, and mass culture. We will devote the majority of the course to three seminal figures: Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin, and T. W. Adorno. More generally, we will focus on the debates catalyzed by the emergence of modern mass media and an industrialized visual culture; we will also reflect on the pertinence of these debates for our own contemporary culture of media convergence.

 Course Notes: This course is equivalent to AFVS 189G. Credit may be earned for German 154 or AFVS 189G, but not both.

 Course Requirements: Anti-Req: Cannot be taken for credit if AFVS 289 (formerly VES 289) is already complete.



 

 



 

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- [ 20th & 21st ](/course-period/20th-21st)
- [ Fall 2023 ](/course-semester/fall-2023)
- [ Culture and the Arts ](/course-theme/culture-and-arts)
- [ Film and Media ](/course-theme/film-and-media)
- [ Literature ](/course-type/literature)