COURSE DESCRIPTION (Group C) Volume in ECTS Course valid Course code Course group Course valid to Reg. No. credits from BRS6008 C 6 2011 06 01 2013 06 01

Course type (compulsory or optional) Optional Course level (study cycle) Master’s level Semester the course is delivered Spring semester Study form (face-to-face or distant) In person

Course title in Lithuanian Filmas ir ideologija: vokiečių ir skandinavų tradicijos

Course title in English Cinema and Ideology: the German and Scandinavian Traditions

Short course annotation in English (up to 500 characters) By analyzing films made by and about German and Scandinavian subjects and citizens, the course introduces students to political and cultural history and trends in Germany, Norway, Denmark, and Sweden over the past century. The thematic focus on ideology centers the readings on the intersections of politics, history, and culture in these respective (and yet related) cultures. The course material places special empahsis on how German and Scandinavian political and cultural history relates tothe Baltic Region as as whole.

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Study outcomes (up to 600 symbols) Students will learn how the historical political and cinematic discourses surrounding religion, class, and gender in Germany and Scandinavia have led to certain present political circumstances in those regions; They will know major political and cultural trends of the 20th centuries in Germany, Norway, Denmark, and Sweden; This course will engage in comparative study of the various differences in these countries’ modern cultural, ideological, and political systems; Students will use this course material as a springboard to other regional Baltic interests, including comparison to the Baltic states, and Lithuanian in particular.

Subject contents (up to 1200 symbols) Introduction to the Course: the Modern Situation in Comparison; The Rise of Scandinavian Nationalism:; “The Modern Break-Through”: Cultural Leftism in Scandinavia; Expression in Germany: art as politics; Naturalism as Politics: the Scandinavian tradition; Fascist Aesthetics; Berliner Politik; Between Liberal Democracy and Fascism: Interwar Political Theory in Germany; Politics in mid-20th century Denmark: Nationalism on the Left and Right; Liberal Democracy between Berlin and Copenhagen; Rise of National Culture: the case of Denmark and Grundtvig; Cultural Critique in Germany: Friedrich Nietzsche and Georg Simmel; August Strindberg and Political Undercurrents in Swedish Writing; Max Weber and the Protestant work ethic; Hearing the Footsteps of Fascist Ideology: Pär Fabian Lagerkvist; Fascism on Film and Aesthetic Ideology: Leni Riefenstal; Political Interventions in Aesthetic Experience: the Danish Dogma project; Paul Celan‘s poetry; The German Economic Miracle vs. The Scandinavian Welfare State Project; The politics and economics of divided Germany; The Cultural Revolution in Scandinavia: gender and sexual liberation vs. The Cultural Revolution in Germany: the struggle with cultural memory; Students can compare such topics as: political systems; the history Scandinavian intervention in the Baltics; the Prussian past in the Baltics; German (Prussian) links to Lithuania, e.g. Memel, Thomas Mann, Herman Sudermann, etc. Study hours Lectures 30 hours, seminars 15 hours, team work 15 hours, individual work 100 hours. Evaluation of study results

Homework and its presentation – 20%, mid-term exam – 30%, final exam – 50%.

Literature No. Publication Authors of publication and title Publishing house year

Christine Ingebritsen, Scandinavia in World Politics Rowman and Littlefield 1. 2006 Publishers Neil Kent, Soul of the North: A Social, Architectural and Cultural History of the Nordic Countries 1700- 2. 2004 Reaktion books 1940

Peter J. Katzenstein, Ed., Tamed Power: Germany in 3. 1999 Cornell University Press Europe 4. 1990 Mary Fulbrook. A Concise History of Germany Cambridge 5. 2003 Goodbye Lenin (film), dir. Wolfgang Becker Byron J. Nordstrom, Scandinavia since 1500. 6. 2000 University of Minnesota

7. 2010 Byron J. Nordstrom, Cultures and Customs of Sweden Greenwood 8. 2006 Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities Verso James Clarke and Co. 9. 1984 N.F.S. Grundtvig, A Grundtvig Anthology (Cambridge) / Centrum (Denmark) 10. 1990 Isaiah Berlin, The Crooked Timber of Humanity Princeton University Press 11. 1945 Pär Lagerkvist, The Dwarf Hill and Wang 12. 1993 Žižek, Slavoj. Tarrying with the Negative Duke University Press 13. 1991 Europa (film), dir. Lars von Trier 14. 2004 Gegen die Wand [Head On](film), dir. Fatih Akin 15. 1998 Festen [The Celebration] (film), dir. Tomas Vinterberg Einhorn and Logue: Modern Welfare State: Scandinavian 16. 1992 Routledge Politics and Policy in the Global Age. Adorno, Benjamin, Bloch, Brecht, and Lukacs. Aesthetics 17. 1980 and Politics Verso

18. 2007 Ingmar Bergman: Four Masterworks Criterion Collection De fem benspænd [The Five Obstructions] (film), dir. 19. 2004 Jørgen Leth Koch Lorber Films

Triumph of the Will & Olympia (films), dir. Leni 20. 2011 Timeless Media Group Riefenstahl Der Himmel über Berlin [Wings of Desire] (film), dir. 21. 2003 MGM Wim Wenders

Course programme designed by Doc. Dr. J.D. Mininger