05.866.410 Seminar 410 American Studies: Organ Transplantation in Film and Fiction

Lehrende/r: Ruth Gehrmann

Veranstaltungsart: online: Seminar

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Semesterwochenstunden: 2

Unterrichtssprache: Englisch

Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl: - | 30

Anmeldegruppe: AS 410

Prioritätsschema: Senatsrichtlinie
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Inhalt:
This seminar discusses fictional representations of organ transplantation and situates them in their contemporary contexts. By navigating the topic’s cultural significance, this seminar aims to draw attention to transplantation’s employment as a narrative device but also as the cause for ongoing controversial discussion. Specific emphasis will be placed on transplantation in popular culture, prominently in speculative works and young adult fiction.

Please consider before choosing the seminar that our discussions will focus on topics that may be difficult or triggering such as brain death, open bodies and body parts.

Empfohlene Literatur:
Further reading and shorter texts will be provided via LMS moodle.

Students need to acquire and prepare:

• Nalo Hopkinson: Brown Girl in the Ring (1998)
  
• Kazuo Ishiguro: Never Let Me Go (2005)
  
• Neal Shusterman: Unwind (2007)
  

• Dirty Pretty Things (2002), directed by Stephen Frears (for instance stream via amazon.de as Kleine Schmutzige Tricks)
  
• The Island (2005), directed by Michael Bay (for instance stream via amazon.de as Die Insel)
  

Digitale Lehre:
This course takes place on Wednesday 10-12 and is a synchronous online course taught via Microsoft Teams. Students are expected to participate regularly.