DHIS 27A00 - War on Screens

This seminar intends to address the relationships between war and cinema: films used as a means to prepare war and then to wage it; warlike phenomenon as it is described in movies; cinema used to tell about what war is for the combatants and for the civilians who endure it, and/or on the home front; relationships between films / series and the memory(ies) of war.

Our work will be based on the study of movies or episodes of series: screenplay(s), director(s) and actors; context of production and of financing; nature; content; reception; situation in the history and the memory of the warlike phenomenon; etc. Some more in-depth and more critical analyses of specific scenes will be strongly encouraged.

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Assessment criteria:

• An oral presentation about one movie or one episode of series.
• A final short essay.
• Participation in class.