Fall 2023 Comparative Literature & Society GU4152 section 001

POLITICS OF PERFORMANCE

Call Number 10854
Day & Time
Location
W 12:10pm-2:00pm
406 Barnard Hall
Points 4
Grading Mode Standard
Approvals Required None
Instructor Hana Worthen
Type SEMINAR
Method of Instruction In-Person
Course Description

How is performance conceived and instrumentalized to fulfill an ideological design? How is ideology transmitted as performance? Centering on National Socialism and Communism, this course explores that and similar questions by examining the political, social, and cultural performances (of Hitler and Stalin, of race and progress, of postwar trials) in the Third Reich and the Soviet Union by engaging a broad range of primary materials (films, documentaries, plays, newsreels, mass spectacles, artifacts of fine art) and by reading widely in the literature of political philosophy and performance studies.

Web Site Vergil
Department Comparative Literature and Society, Institute for
Enrollment 7 students (12 max) as of 12:04AM Wednesday, December 18, 2024
Subject Comparative Literature & Society
Number GU4152
Section 001
Division Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Section key 20233CPLS4152G001