GRST 271 German Cinema in Exile: Film noir (3)

Film noir (or “dark cinema”) conjures images of deceptive women, secretive men, criminal acts and unbounded sexuality. A quintessentially American genre, many of the classic films were created by exiles from Nazi Germany. In film noir, these filmmakers gave expression to their feelings of displacement and homelessness by thematizing a dark confrontation with the past, the alienation of the American film noir is deeply indebted to the cinema of the Weimar Republic. We will explore the stylistic and historical aspects of film noir and argue the case for naming it a quintessentially exilic genre. Course in English.
Course Frequency: Occasional