D. Bevington, N. Rudall. Texts and films in German. This is a general introduction to the main concepts of psychoanalysis through a close reading of the central works of Sigmund Freud. S. Gilman, F. Meltzer. Among other figures and issues, we address Dziga Vertov and Constructivism, German Expressionism and Aleksandr Dovzhenko, and Formalist poetics and FEKS directors.
Film screenings are six hours a week in addition to scheduled class time.
Consent of instructor. Recently the standard format for the study of gender and obesity has been to stress the meaning of fat in constructing the modern female body. In this course we look at how culture since Rabelais's Gargantua and Shakespeare's Falstaff has imagined the fat male body. Consent of instructor. Consent of instructor.