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| Title | German Projections Foreign Reflections |
| Body | From: Germany in Class <http://www.germany.info/relaunch/info/publications/week.html> e-mail: schwan@germany.info German Projections Foreign Reflections: German film, home and abroad, German Dept. of the University of Pennsylvania, Graduate Conference, April 3, 2004 In an era when film has become a major determinant of cultural identities, the German Department of the University of Pennsylvania is pleased to invite papers for a graduate conference on German film on Saturday, April 3, 2004. After the death of the cinematographer/mythographer Leni Riefenstahl, and with Wolfgang Petersen's Trojan Wars set to be one of the summer blockbusters, it is time to consider how film creates historical memory, nationally and internationally. How is Europe's long history presented in the new technologies of the twentieth and twenty-first century marketplace? Which narrative strategies are still valid, and which must be reimagined? Are these reinventions culturally or technologically determined? How do German film-makers, artists, writers, and designers communicate historical material to today's mass audience? What does a text gain or lose in the translation from page to cinema screen - or from a German/European product to an American/worldwide market? The German film "Nowhere in Africa" won last this year's Oscar for best foreign movie.Possible topic areas include (but are not limited to): -ancient history and new technologies -the warrior as hero & war stories -history and the documentary form -film in the German-language classroom -star status in German cinema and worldwide -the "German" soundtrack from Wagner to Rammstein -marketing Germany and Europe in America and beyond -world-wide hits and local viewers: the crafting of the "export movie" -Der Zorn Gottes: hubris & nemesis in modern narrative -the film in the book: narrative transfer and the multitude of media -German Hollywood: émigré film-makers and artists from Weimar to today -archaeology and the action movie: historical accuracy/distortion and the mass audience -lighting the landscape scening the seascape: Adriatic, Aegean, and Mediterranean in German film Please send abstracts of no more than one page by January 8, 2004 to: Samuel Willcocks Dept of Germanic Languages & Literatures University of Pennsylvania 133 Bennett Hall 3340 Walnut Street Philadelphia 19104-6203 email: willcock@sas.upenn.edu Every effort will be made to house participants with members of the Penn department for the duration of the conference. |
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