The discussion of Georg Kaiser's Gas I, for example, is introduced with a newspaper clip on the Challenger disaster. Students are also encouraged to reflect on their own experience of the postmodern urban landscape of Los Angeles. As part of their graded assignments, students are asked to design a collage that represents an aspect of contemporary urban life or to write a creative essay imagining urban flanerie in the 90s. The second showing of Metropolis at the end of the semester allows students to apply their recently acquired cultural knowledge and to experience the film in all its historical and contemporary dimensions. 194 Prof. v.
Students can write an optional termpaper to improve their grades.
Each student will be asked to give one 15 min.