Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Film screening and panel discussion of Sophie Scholl; The Final Days


The German Studies Program of Florida State College
invites you to a film screening and
panel discussion of

Sophie Scholl; The Final Days



This Academy Award Nominee for Best Foreign Language Film recounts the
true story of Germany¹s most famous anti-Nazi heroine is brought to
thrilling life in the multi-award winning drama. Armed with long-buried
historical records of her incarceration, director Marc Rothemund expertly
re-creates the last six days of Sophie Scholl¹s life: a heart-stopping
journey from arrest to interrogation, trial and sentence.

This film has not been rated by the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of
America)

Wednesday, December 1, 2010
05:30-08:30 PM
Five Points Theatre
1028 Park Street
Jacksonville, FL 32204-3908
(904) 359-0047
This event is free and open to the public

The panel will include:

Melanie Engel, Adjunct Professor of German Studies, Florida State College
Charles Closman, Assistant Professor of History, University of North
Florida
Dirk Wendtorf, Professor of German Studies, Florida State College



The panel will provide a short survey of the history of German resistance
against the Third Reich and discuss the significance these courageous
acts hold for us in the contemporary society.

Sunday, April 25, 2010

Screening of THE BAADER-MEINHOF KOMPLEX on 04/28/10 at the Five Points Theater

In the wake of the national debate on domestic terrorism Florida State College invites the residents of the First Coast to attend a screeningof

The Baader-Meinhof Komplex,


a 2008 Academy Award and Golden Globe nominated docudrama based on the true story of the Red Army Faction.

Germany in the 1970s. The radicalized children of the Nazi generation have grown up. They vowed Nazism would never rule again. They declare war on what they see as a new face of fascism: the U.S. policy in Vietnam, the Middle East and the Third World and the German Government. In their revolutionary fight they lost themselves in the cause and inflict a wave of terror on Germany. Directed by Uli Edel (LAST EXIT TO BROOKLYN). Produced by Bernd Eichinger (LAST EXIT TO BROOKLYN and DOWNFALL).


Professor Melanie Engel and Dr. Dirk Wendtorf of the German Studies Program

at Florida State College will provide a short introduction on the political context to be followed by a screening of the film. The event “The Baader-Meinhof Komplex” will be held on

Wednesday,04/28/10 from6-­9 p.m.

at

Five PointTheater,

1028 Park Street

Jacksonville, FL 32204-­3908

The event is free and open to the public.


Parental Advisory: The film “The Baader-Meinhof Komplex” has been rated R for strong bloody violence, disturbing images, sexual content, graphic nudity and language

by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA)

Thursday, April 1, 2010

GER 1121: Preparation for Test 2




Dear course members:
Right after spring break you will have the fabulous opportunity to excel on a German test on 04/13/10.......


The format of test 2 will be as follows:


Oral Segment (40%): Based on a set of pictures, you will required to create sentences using subordinate clauses and make statements in the present perfect.


Listening Comprehension (10%): Based on the readings in chapter 3 and 4 I will read a short story and ask some questions. You will have to provide the answers (needless to say....).


Grammar (30%): Based on the grammatical concepts of chapters 3 and 4, you will be requested to write sentences describing a situation, answering questions, and combine statements by means of subordinate conjuctions (cf. sessions on 03/30 and 04/01)

The focus will be: the dative (dative objects and prepositions), subordinate clauses, and the present perfect


Culture (20%): The culture segment will be based on the cultural readings (Vorschau und Focus)for chapter 3 and 4 and the films we have screened in class.

Screening of Eran Riklis's "The Lemon Tree" on 04/08/10 from 07:30-09:30PM







The Jacksonville Jewish Community Alliance

presents a film screening of
Eran Riklis’s compelling drama

Etz Limon (The Lemon Tree) (2008)

The Lemon tree is an allegorical story about a lemon grove and its Palestinian woman who has lived on the green line border between Israel and the West Bank for decades. She tends a lemon grove lemon tree which becomes under threat when an Israeli government minister moves in next door.

The film has not been rated by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA)


April 8, 2010
7:30-09:30 PM
Jacksonville Jewish Community Alliance
8505 San Jose Blvd
Jacksonville, FL

RSVP is kindly requested to Ms. Thelma Nied
at thelma.nied@jcajax.org/ (904)-730-2100 x227
The event is free of admission and open to the public.
Snacks and refreshments will be provided.


This program is strongly endorsed by the German Studies Program of Florida State College and the German-Israeli Film and Speaker Series

Saturday, February 13, 2010

Spring2010-HUM2020-316757 (Take Home)

Take Home Quiz

Spring2010-HUM2020-316757

Please indicate whether the following statements are true (T) or false (F) according to the author of the text.

A. Crew, David F. Nazism and German Society, 1933-1945. Pp. 1-62

1. Recent research has a tendency to link the Nazi era to other periods in German history.

2. Class conflict was an essential element in the relationship between workers and the Nazi party.

3. Full employment made workers less resistant to Nazi system.

4. Labor unions or at least small fractions were able to survive despite Nazi prosecution.

5. The Nazis achieved a fragmentation of interests among the workers.

6. Social racism describes the Nazi policy to send workers who „lacked“ work ethics to a camp.

7. The Nazis provided free cruises fort he workers, a fact that has been neglected in past research

8. A non-class identity is an identity that cannot be associated with a traditional class thinking, e.g. by workers.

9. The influx of foreign workers during the war challenged the position of the German worker.

10. The majority of German workers sympathized with the plight of the foreign workers in Germany.

11. German workers were hardly involved in war crimes.

12. German workers that were not drafted as soldiers enjoyed an improvement of working and living conditions.

13. During the war at the home front class identity was replaced by communities of fate

14. Overall however, the Nazis were not able to break old class structures.

15. The Nazis managed to ban females from public life during the period of 1933-1945.

16. In the private industry females were appreciated for their physical and mental characteristics.

17. In concentration camp there were cases were women treated other women with extreme cruelty.

18. For some females, the time in the League of German Girls could also be viewed as a time of personal growth.

19. The larges amount of support fort he Nazi party in the 1933 elections came from big business.

20. During the Nazi are, the German Mitteltand gained prestige whereas the peasantry suffered economic troubles.

21. WWII destroyed the traditional structures of village life.

22. The modernity the Nazis promoted in Germany can only be assessed correctly if you detach it from racial ideology.

23. THE Nazi Party was successful in establishing a functioning Volksgemeinschaft.

24. The first six essays in the book demonstrate how ordinary citizen used their personal agenda to contribute to the extend of the Nazi power.

25. The last three essays in the book demonstrate that racism was not able to break up collective identities.

26. Omer Bartov's article properly depicts the mentalities of the largest part of Germans during the war.

27. Bartov claims in his article that researchers in the past have mingled social and military history in order explain the behavior of the working class.

28. According to Bartov the general moral in the German Armed Forces started to disintegrate in July of 1944, right after the failed Hitler assassination.

29. According to Bartov, the youth was a group that retained their courage to fight until the end.

B. Jill Nelmes. Introduction to Film Studies , pp. Xvii-22 and pp. 61-89, 149-152

30. Most popular films are usually also the most innovative films.

31. The monolithic idea of an audience is a true assumption films should be based upon.

32. Film studies in its beginning as an academic discipline borrowed from the field of linguistics.

33. At the micro level we encounter the narrative.

34. Striking shots usually violate established conventions.

35. The term „film“ evades a definite definition.

36. Film is a wonderful medium to question our relationship with the material world, space, time, and consciousness.

37. Film history and interpretation is subject to new approaches as time passes by.

38. A metanarrative is a big, all comprehensive story where all elements have a fixed place.

39. A transition from traditional narrative to postmodern can be witnessed in films.

40. Postmodern film tries to break up the distinction between past and present.

41. A mise-en-film indicates what is filmed but not how it is filmed.

42. Both movement image and time image support the narrative in films.

43. A film is a mixture between a story told and a drama.

44. A close-up in the memory of the viewer can be far more important than the entire narrative of a film.

45. Femme fatales are usually shown in high-key lightening in the film noir.

46. There are seven shot categories in shot scales

47. The camera knows five basic types of mobility.

48. Editing designates the process of joining together separate parts of a film

49. A juxtaposition between one shot and the next may be presented by a fade.

50. A pitch technique can be observed in Jaws during the shark attack.

Friday, January 1, 2010

HUM 2020 "The Portrayal of National Socialism in Hollywood and German Cinematic Arts: An Interdisciplinary Approach"


COMING IN THE SPRING OF 2010!

T R     11:00 AM-12:45 PM     02/08/2010-05/07/2010 (B 12) Rm M 2226

Florida State College, South Campus    

 

HUM2020 "Crime in Germany's Political Landscape: An Exploration of 20th Century German Literature and Cinematic Arts"


COMING IN THE SPRING TERM OF 2010.....

HUM2020 
"Crime in Germany's Political Landscape: 
An Exploration of 20th Century German Literature and Cinematic Arts" 

NORTH CAMPUS (D0203)   6:00PM to 9:15PM M 2/8/2010 - 5/7/2010 (B 12)
Florida State College, North Campus