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Holocaust Media Syllabus Lynne Joyrich office hours: Th 3:30-5:00 & by appt. MCM, 155 George Street #212 MCM1502U: MEDIA AND MEMORY: REPRESENTING THE HOLOCAUST Meetings: semester 1, 2009-2010 Screenings: Mondays 7:00-11:00 p.m. Seminar: Tuesdays 1:30-3:50 Course Description: The Holocaust has been positioned at the limits of representation—as the unimaginable, the unsayable, the unknowable, the incomprehensible. But, of course, there have been numerous attempts to represent the Holocaust, to speak and imagine its contours, to know and understand this event and its implications. Such attempts have occurred across a wide range of media forms (not only in literature, photography, and film, but also in television series, musical productions, graphic novels, and other popular forms), genres (not only in documentary and drama, but in comedy, fantasy, and science fiction), locations (in both "high" and "low" culture, in the public spaces of museums and memorials as well as the private spaces of domestic reception), and discursive modalities (through modes of fiction and nonfiction, history and memory, testimony and witnessing, reporting and reflection). What do we make of these representations and, in general, of the paradoxes involved in trying to represent the unrepresentable and to "mediate" the immediacy of traumatic experience? We will consider these questions by exploring a wide range of media texts and theoretical reflections that, in a variety of ways, attempt to confront the Holocaust. Reading: There are 2 books at the Brown Bookstore (244 Thayer St.; 863-2270): — Art Spiegelman, The Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale. — Jurek Becker, Jacob the Liar. All other readings are posted on the course wiki (and instructions on how to join the wiki will be forthcoming). While you may thus read the material online, please be sure to print out each week's reading to bring to class so that you have the material available for discussion. Course Requirements: Students are expected to keep up with the assigned readings and attend the screenings and seminars as scheduled. Participation in seminar is crucial: every third week (in staggered groups, marked as A, B, and C in the syllabus), you will each be responsible for bringing a thoughtful and weighty discussion question to class to help stimulate the conversation. These questions should be typed and turned in to me at the end of the class session; together with class participation, these questions are worth 10% of your final grade. In addition to the discussion questions, the writing requirement for undergraduate students consists of 3 short papers (5-7 pages each) that will be equally weighted in calculating your final grade (in other words, each paper is worth 30% of your final grade). Each paper assignment asks you to consider television's operations in the light of the theories and modes of analysis explored in class. 1. A paper based on the material from weeks 1-5; this will be due on 10/20. 2. A paper based on the material from weeks 6-9; this will be due on. 11/17 3. A paper based on the material from weeks 10-14; this will be due on 12/15. A list of suggested essay topics will be distributed before these papers are due; students may write on a topic of their own choice if they discuss and gain approval for this in advance. Late papers will be graded down unless the student discusses the situation with me prior to the due date, and incompletes will only be given in exceptional circumstances. Graduate students enrolled in the course should see me to discuss their assignments. Please be aware that plagiarism and unauthorized collaboration are serious offenses. The Academic Code explaining Brown’s principles of academic integrity (and the repercussions for violation) can be found at: http://www.brown.edu/Administration/Dean_of_the_College/academic_code/code.html . page 2 I. HISTORY & MEDIATION, REALITY & REPRESENTATION WEEK 1: Historical Introduction (In-class screening) Excerpts from Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust. Dir. Daniel Anker. 2004. Readings for Tue, Sept 15: • "History of the Holocaust: An Overview." Teaching About the Holocaust. (From The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum) [PDF] • "Chronology of the Holocaust." Teaching About the Holocaust. (From The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum) [PDF] • Young, James. "Names of the Holocaust: Meaning and Consequences." Writing and Rewriting the Holocaust: Narrative and the Consequences of Interpretation. Ed. James Edward Young. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1988. 83-98. [PDF] • Hilberg, Raul. "I Was Not There." Writing and the Holocaust. Ed. Berel Lang. New York: Holmes & Meier, 1988. 17-25. [PDF] Also start reading the novel Jacob the Liar, by Jurek Becker, as this will come up in discussions throughout the semester. ........................................................................................................................................................................................... WEEK 2 (A): Historical "Fact" and "Fiction" Screening on Mon, Sept 21: Schindler's List. Dir. Steven Spielberg. 1993. (RT: 195 minutes) Reading for Tue, Sept 22: • Friedländer, Saul. "Introduction." Probing the Limits of Representation: Nazism and the 'Final Solution. Ed. Saul Friedländer. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press, 1992. 1-21. [PDF] • White, Hayden. "Historical Emplotment and the Problem of Truth." Probing the Limits of Representation: Nazism and the Final Solution. Ed. Saul Friedländer. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1992. 37-53. [PDF] • Lang, Berel. "Holocaust Genres and the Turn to History." The Holocaust and the Text: Speaking the Unspeakable. Ed. Andrew Leak and George Paizis. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000. 17-31. [PDF] • Hansen, Miriam. "Schindler's List Is Not Shoah: Second Commandment, Popular Modernism, and Public Memory." Visual Culture and the Holocaust. Ed. Barbie Zelizer. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 2001. 127-151. [PDF] • Weissman, Gary. "Shoah Illustrated, Section 1: Steven Spielberg and the Sensitive Line." Fantasies of Witnessing: Postwar Efforts to Experience the Holocaust. Ithica: Cornell University Press, 2004. 140-189. [PDF] Remember to be reading Jurek Becker's Jacob the Liar! Recommended: • Hoberman, J., et al. "Schindler's List: Myth, Movie, and Memory." Village Voice. March 29, 1994. [PDF] ........................................................................................................................................................................................... page 3 WEEK 3 (B): Trauma, Representation, and "the Real" Screening on Mon, Sept 28: Shoah. Dir. Claude Lanzmann. 1985. (Excerpts, RT: 180 minutes) Reading for Tue, Sept 29: • Caruth, Cathy. "Introduction: The Wound and the Voice." Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative and History. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. 1-9. [PDF] • Caruth, Cathy. “Trauma and Experience” excerpt. The Holocaust: Theoretical Readings. Eds. Neil Levi and Michael Rothberg. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2003. 192-198. [PDF] • Delbo, Charlotte. "Days and Memory" excerpt. The Holocaust: Theoretical Readings. Eds. Neil Levi and Michael Rothberg. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2003. 45-49. (Excerpt) [PDF] • Felman, Shoshana. "The Return of the Voice: Claude Lanzmann's Shoah." Testimony: Crises of Witnessing in Literature, Psychoanalysis and History. Shoshana Felman & Dori Laub. NY: Routledge, 1992. 204-283. [PDF] • Weissman, Gary. "Shoah Illustrated, Section 2: Claude Lanzmann and the Ring of Fire." Fantasies of Witnessing: Postwar Efforts to Experience the Holocaust. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2004. 189-206. [PDF] • Agamben, Giorgio. "What is a Camp?" excerpt. The Holocaust: Theoretical Readings. Eds. Neil Levi and Michael Rothberg. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2003. 252-256. [PDF] • Agamben, Giorgio. Remnants of Auschwitz: The Witness and the Archive. Trans. Daniel Heller-Roazen. New York: Zone, 1999. Read excerpts: "Preface," pages 1-15, and sections 2.1-2.7 from chapter 2, "The Muselmann," pages 41-54. [PDF - WHOLE BOOK] ........................................................................................................................................................................................... WEEK 4 (C): Seeing/Speaking: Testimony and Witnessing Screening on Mon, Oct 5: • "Hanna Block Kohner." This is Your Life. NBC. 1953. (RT: approximately 30 minutes) • "Memory of the Camps." Frontline. PBS. 1985. (RT: approximately 60 minutes) • Seeing. (Fortunoff Video Archive testimony video #8060) (RT:16 minutes) Reading for Tue, Oct 6: • Bathrick, David. "Teaching Visual Culture and the Holocaust." Teaching the Representation of the Holocaust. Eds. Marianne Hirsch and Irene Kacandes. New York: MLA, 2004. 286-300. [PDF] • Shandler, Jeffrey. "Creating the Viewer (1945-1960)," "The Image as Witness," and "This Is Your Life." While America Watches: Televising the Holocaust. Oxford and New York: Oxford UP, 1999. 1-40. [PDF for all] • Laub, Dori. "Bearing Witness or the Vicissitudes of Listening" excerpt. The Holocaust: Theoretical Readings. Eds. Neil Levi and Michael Rothberg. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2003. 221-226. [PDF] • Hartman, Geoffrey. "Learning from Survivors: The Yale Testimony Project." The Longest Shadow: In the Aftermath of the Holocaust. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996. 133-150. [PDF] • Langer, Lawrence. "Deep Memory: The Buried Self." Holocaust Testimonies: The Ruins of Memory. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991. 1-38. [PDF] • Agamben,
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