Thursday, April 1, 2010

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

Sunday, November 22, 2009

JCA and FSCJ invite to a film screening and discussion on 12/08/09





The Jacksonville Jewish Community Alliance
and the German Program at Florida State College

present the film screening of

Agnieszka Holland’s compelling fact-based drama “Europa, Europa” (1990)

Agnieszka Holland’s film is based on the 1989 autiobiography of Simon Perel who survived the Shoah by masquerading as an Aryan and forced to join the Hitler Youth.

The film has been rated "R" by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA)

The screeing of the film will be followed by a discussion with Ms. Irene Jaffa, whose parents were survivors of and witness to the Shoah.

December 8, 2009
7:00-10:00 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 or for students to Dr. Dirk Wendtorf at dwendtor@fscj.edu.

The event is free of admission and open to the public.

Snacks and refreshments will be provided.



Monday, November 9, 2009

German-Israeli Film Festival: Start on 12/08/09



The German Program at Florida State College at Jacksonville in conjunction with the Jewish Community Alliance will start or German-Israeli Film Festival by screening Europa Europa, a film directed by Agnieszka Holland. Its original German title is Hitlerjunge Salomon, which means Hitler Youth Salomon. The film is based on the 1989 autobiography by Solomon Perel, a Jew who escaped the National Socialist prosecution by masquerading as an Aryan and joining the Hitler Youth.. The film stars Marco Hofschneider and Julie Delpy along with the real-life Perel as himself. This film is an international co-production between film companies in Germany, France, and Sweden.

The screening of the film is followed by a discussion with a time witness and Shoah survivor. Please keep posted for further information!