War, Film, and History
Film has a powerful effect on the way we understand history, and particularly the history of war. In this course, we study a selection of films that deal directly or indirectly with war: we explore the relationship between the past and its representation in film. This is not a “film course” per se; our goal is to set these films in their contemporaneous context, examine them as (problematic) historical works in their own right and compare them to conventional historical approaches.
Our focus this block is on the Second World War. Our films fall into three rough sections: one dealing with Germany and the Soviet Union at war; another dealing with resistance and collaboration in wartime France; and the last dealing with the collapse of the Thousand-Year Reich.
Department: Division of Arts and Humanities
University: Quest University Canada
Years offered: 2019-2020