HONORS
390E: RECONSTRUCTING HISTORICAL MEMORY: THE SECOND WORLD WAR AND THE AMERICAN
CINEMA
WINTER 2003
Professor
Joe Lunn, Department of Social Sciences (History)
Room: 2119 CX
Telephone: (313) 436-9184; Home: (734) 741-4465
Email: joelunn@umich.edu
Office Hours: M-W: 12:00-12:30 and 2:00-3:00 p.m., or by appointment
TEXTS:
John Keegan,
The Second World War, Hutchinson
Studs Terkel, The Good War: An Oral History of the Second World War,
Pantheon
Clayton R. Koppes and Gregory D. Black, Hollywood
Goes to War: How Politics, Profits and Propaganda Shaped World War II Movies, University
of California Press
FILMS:
Mrs. Miniver, Why We Fight (Prelude to War), Battle of Midway, Casablanca, The
Best Years of Our Lives, From Here to Eternity, Patton, Schindler's List, Saving
Private Ryan, Hiroshima-Nagasaki, August 1945
Week
Topics
Readings (Chapters)
Films
1/8 |
Introduction:
The Second World War, Historical Memory and the Cinema |
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1/15 |
Origins
of the Second World War |
Keegan, 1-2 |
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1/22 |
The
Blitzkrieg and Embattled Britain |
Keegan, 3-5; Koppes/Black, 1-2 |
Mrs. Miniver (1942) |
1/29 |
War
Comes to America |
Keegan, 12-14; Koppes/Black, 3-5 |
Why We Fight (1942); Battle of Midway
(1943) |
2/5 |
A
World at War |
Keegan, 6, 9,11; Koppes/Black, 6-8; Turkel, B3/S4 |
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2/12 |
Allies,
Enemies, and Wartime Propaganda |
Keegan, 16; Koppes/Black,9-10; Terkel (Kael) |
Casablanca (1943) |
2/19 |
Victory
and Homecoming |
Keegan, 20, 23, 30, 31; Koppes/Black, 11 |
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) |
2/26 |
First
Paper Due (Discussion) |
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3/5 |
SPRING BREAK (No Class) |
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3/12 |
American
Retrospective: December 7, 1941 |
Terkel, B1/S1 |
From Here to Eternity (1953) |
3/19 |
Old
Soldiers and New Wars |
Terkel, B1/S2, S3 |
Patton (1970) |
3/26 |
Genocide Revisited: Hollywood's Representation of
the Holocaust |
Keegan, 15; Terkel, B4/S1 |
Schindler's List
(1993) |
4/2 |
Paying Homage to a Vanishing Generation |
Terkel, B1/S6, B2/S4 |
Saving Private Ryan
(1998) |
4/9 |
"Withheld from Release:" Censored Images of Oblivion |
Keegan, 22, 32; Terkel, B2/S2, B4/S4 |
Hiroshima-Nagasaki, August 1945
(1970) |
4/16 |
Second Paper Due (Discussion)
Conclusion: War and Remembrance |
Keegan, 33; Terkel, B4/S5, S6 |
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