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American Drama: Stage & Screen (AE_HSADRM)- Lecturer
- PD Dr. Karin Höpker
- Details
- Hauptseminar
2 cred.h, Sprache Englisch
Time and place: Mon 18:00 - 19:30, C 301
- Prerequisites / Organisational information
- Das HS Literature kann wie folgt verwendet werden:
L-GYM Englisch: "Hauptmodul L-Gym Literature"
BA English and American Studies: "Hauptmodul A Literature" mit begleitender Independent Study Group
BA American Studies: "Hauptmodul A Literature/Culture" mit begleitender Independent Study Group
MA North American Studies - Literature: 5, 8
MA North American Studies - Culture: 4, 7
MA The Americas/Las Américas: Modul 4
MA English Studies: "Freie Ergänzungsstudien/Wild Card": Wie Aufbaumodul, mit begleitendem Kurs
- Contents
- This course focuses on the close interrelation of stage and screen that informs US American dramatic production since the late 1940s. It provides an overview of American literary tradition throughout the 20th and 21st century and tracks its transatlantic aesthetic history. Students will explore the intertextuality and specific medialities of stage and screen production.
How does dramatic form change when adapted for the screen, and how is filmic form impacted by dramatic material written for stage productions? How did Hollywood adaptations change percepts of dramatic performance, and how did the fluctuation of authors between stage and screen leave its mark? And to what extent do stage-on-screen productions or films set in theatrical contexts such as J. Mankiewicz’s All About Eve (1950) or Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s Birdman (2014) address issues of mediality?
Class reading and viewing ranges from Tennessee Williams’ classics Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and A Streetcar Named Desire, Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, and the readaptation of Lillian Hellman’s The Children’s Hour(1961) to Woody Allen’s recent reengagement with theater and classical Hollywood in films such as Blue Jasmine (2013) and Wonder Wheel (2017). Texts such as Walter Benjamin’s Das Kunstwerk im Zeitalter seiner technischen Reproduzierbarkeit, Peter Szondi’s Theorie des modernen Dramas, and Susan Sontag’s “Film and Theater“ will provide a theoretical framework for discussion.
- Recommended literature
- A preliminary syllabus and reading/viewing list will be made available on StudOn.
- Additional information
- Maximale Teilnehmerzahl: 25
Registration is required for this lecture.
Registration starts on Monday, 12.2.2018, 19.00 and lasts till Saturday, 31.3.2018, 23:59 über: mein Campus.
- Verwendung in folgenden UnivIS-Modulen
- Startsemester SS 2018:
- Amerikanistik, Modul C (Kulturwissenschaft) (M 4)
- Aufbaumodul Cultural Studies (Master Modul 4)
- Aufbaumodul Literary Studies (Master Modul 5)
- North America: Culture and Literature (AM4)
- North American Studies (AM3b)
- Vertiefungsmodul Cultural Studies (Master Modul 7)
- Vertiefungsmodul Literary Studies (Master Modul 8)
- Department: Lehrstuhl für Amerikanistik, insbesondere Literaturwissenschaft (Prof. Dr. Kley)
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