Course Details
974: War and Remembrance: The War Film
January 30 and February 1 and 3
9:45 AM -
11:15 AM
In-Person
Films, novels, memoir, poetry, art, and architecture shape collective memory of a historical event. This short course will look at two specific instances of war and remembrance in film: All Quiet on the Western Front (2022) and Saving Private Ryan (1998). Some of the essential questions we will try to answer are: What narrative of the war does this film construct? How is that narrative constructed? Does that narrative comport with popular ideas of that war? What can we extrapolate from these films about other genres of war narrative? Participants should watch both films before the first meeting.
Class Type: Discussion
Class Format: In-Person
Hours of Reading: 1-2 hours/session
Study Group Leader(s):
Mary MulliganWith undergraduate and graduate degrees in history and a law degree, Mary Mulligan spent three decades teaching American and European history at Phillips Academy in Andover, MA. She taught seminars on the birth of modernism, World War I, the inter-war years, World War II, and the Holocaust.