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Instructors: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Oliver Scheiding
Event type:
Seminar
Displayed in timetable as:
05.866.512
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
- | 30
Registration group: AS 512
Priority scheme: Senatsrichtlinie
Contents:
Currently diverse media formats demonstrate how American popular culture brings colonial history to life. Over the past decade, HBO, Netflix, and other media companies aired critically acclaimed TV series and films about the early Americas. In addition, comic book authors and illustrators as well as writers launched fresh approaches to retelling colonial events and historical documents. In doing so, they frequently shed new light onto controversial issues like racial, ethnic, and imperial conflicts in the early Atlantic world. This graduate course explores modes of visual storytelling and the numerous strategies used by different types of media (film, music, books, comics, video games, etc.) to represent early America. We will discuss how these art forms reinforce sometimes troubling narratives that legitimize colonialism and nation-building, but also how media challenges commemorative practices and sheds new light on colonial policies of coercion, displacement, and assimilation.
Recommended reading list:
Films and artwork will be provided by instructor; the following books should be purchased:
Toni Morrison, A Mercy. A Novel. New York: Abrams, 2008.
Additional material will be available on ILIAS.
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