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Investigates the various reactions of writers, artists, philosophers, and filmmakers to the process of social and cultural modernization during the early twentieth century. Topics: the city as text, the fascination with technology and the machine, myth and modernity, avant-garde art movements, reactionary modernism, redefinitions of sexuality. In 1997##038;#8211;98, subject emphasizes German modernism. Readings by Marx, Freud, Benjamin, Döblin, Hesse, Brecht, Jünger; films by Lang, Murnau, Pabst; artistic production of German expressionism, Neue achlichkeit, Bauhaus. Taught in English.

Units: 3-0-9(U)