HIST 406/506 - The Twentieth Century Through Art and Literature

14-WEEK FILM SERIES ON THE 20TH CENTURY BEGINS WEDNESDAY, 4TH FEBRUARY
Halil Berktay’s Spring 2015 course on The Twentieth Century Through Art and Literature (double-coded as HIST 406/506) will feature, in addition to regular class meetings, a parallel series of film showings devoted to major examples of 20th century political cinema, including masterworks by Eisenstein, Wajda, Resnais, Tarkovsky, Loach, Spielberg, Pontecorvo or Coppola. They will be devoted to the horros of the Western Front in World War I and the Eastern Front in World War II; the Bolshevik Revolution; Fascism, Nazism, and the Holocaust; the Spanish Civil War, the French Résistance, and the Warsaw Uprising; memories of Stalinist terror; and violence and the Third World in the 1960s and 70s (Vietnam and Algeria).

These Wednesday evening sessions in the Cinema Hall will normally begin at 17:30 and conclude by 20:30 at the latest. They will be bracketed by some introductory remarks as well as a concluding discussion. An as yet unspecified number of front rows (depending on course registration) will be reserved for HIST 406/506 students. At the same time (subject to seating constraints) they will also be open to the rest of the University community.