Robert Schwartz

206 Skinner

e-mail: rschwart@mtholyoke.edu

Office Hours: Mon. 2:15-3; Thur. 4-5:30; and by appointment

Representations of Nationalism from the Great Depression to World War II

Sept. 6

Introduction

Sept. 13

David. D. Perlmutter, “Visual Historical Methods” (CP)

E. J. Hobsbawm, Nations and Nationalisms since 1780, chap. 5 (The Apogee of Nationalism, 1918-1950) (CP)

Wilkinson and Hughes, Contemporary Europe, chaps. 5 (Technology and Society), 8 (The Great Depression), 9 (The Fascist Regimes), 11 (European Civilization in Crisis), 12 The Road to Catastrophe, 1935-1939 (CP)

Hitler and National Socialism

Jeremy King

Sept. 17

Triumph of the Will directed by Leni Riefenstahl (1934)

Sept. 20

Seminar Meeting: Readings and Discussion

Alan Cowell “Admire Her Art? (Her Camera Adored Swastikas).” New York Times, 21 August 1997, p. A4. (CP)

Donald Wall, “Nazi Germany and World War II” (CP)

Sept. 24

Film on the Life and Art of Leni Reifenstall

Sept. 27

Sontag, Susan. “Fascinating Fascism.” In Under the Sign of Saturn. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1980, pp. 73-105. [First published 1975.] Excerpt: pp. 73-98.

Gary Morris, “Lonesome Leni” on the web at:

 http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/26/riefenstahl.html

Robert Soucy, “French Press Reactions to Hitler’s First Two Years in Power,” Contemporary European History 7 1998: 21-38(CP)

France: The Popular Front and the French Revolution

Oct. 1

Seminar Meeting: Readings and Discussion

Wilkinson and Hughes, Contemporary Europe, chaps. 8 (The Great Depression), pp208-219, 9 (The Fascist Regimes), pp. 244-249 (CP)

Robert Soucy, French Fascisms: The Second Wave, 1933-1939; 12--36 (CP2)

 (CP2)

E. J. Hobsbawn, The Age of Revolution, 1789-1848, chap. 3 “The French Revolution.” (CP2)

Selected documents of the 1930s and the era of Revolution (1789-1794) (CP2)

• The “Marseillaise” (August 1792), from Mason and Rizzo, eds., The French Revolution. The song that became the French national anthem in 1879. (CP2)
• Charles Maurras on the French Revolution (From Nature and Reason, ca. 1935). (CP2)
• Georges Lefebvre, The Coming of the French Revolution, 1789 (1939), “Conclusion.” (CP2)

Oct. 4

Film and discussion: La Marseillaisedirected by Jean Renoir (1936)

Peter Burley, “A Farrago of Nonsense? The French Revolution in the Cinema,” (CP)

Oct. 9

Break

Oct. 11

 Documents on the French Revolution vs. Renoir’s Film: The Case of August 10^th 1792, The Popular Insurrection and the Overthrow of the Monarchy

“La Marseillaise” (pp. 124-127, following Maurras on the French Revolution)

“The Tenth of August”

“The Capture of the Tuilleries Palace, 1792,” collection of documents from P. Dawson, ed., The French Revolution. (CP2)

• The Paris Sections’ Petition for the Dethronment of Louis XVI
• Proceedings of the Quinze-Vingts Section
• A Letter from a Federal Volunteer
• A Letter from a Legislator
• The Narrative by the Minister of Justice

Oct. 15

M. R. Cox, The Place of the French Revolution in History, “Introduction: Change and Continuity in the Historiography of the French Revolution;” (CP2)

Hippolyte Taine, “The Fulfillment of the Enlightenment” (selections from The Origins of Contemporary France, ca. 1880) (CP2)

Robert Darnton, "Danton," in Past Imperfect: History according to the Movies, ed. Mark C. Carnes (New York: Henry Holt, 1995), pp. 104-109.

Lifeboat: Class, Race, Gender and the Enemy

Mary Renda

Oct. 18

Introduction to the next unit: (read before class)

George H. Roeder, "Censoring Disorder: American Visual Imagery of World

War II," in Lewis Erenberg and Susan E. Hirsch, eds., The War in American

Culture: Society and Consciousness during World War II

(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996), 46-70.

Film: Lifeboat directed by Arthur Hitchcock (1944)

Oct. 22

Seminar Meeting: Readings and Discussion

Documents (CP)

John Steinbeck, "Lifeboat," Collier's, November 13, 1943.

Darryl Zanuck to Alfred Hitchcock, memoranda dated August 19, 1943 and September 4, 1943, in Dan Auiler, Hitchcock's Notebooks: An Authorized and Illustrated Look Inside the Creative Mind of Alfred Hitchcock (New York: Avon Books, 1999), 129 & 132.

Bosley Crowther, "Adrift in Lifeboat," The New York Times, January 23,1944.

Oct. 25

Discussion II

Intermission

Taking Stock and Looking Forward: Themes and Paper Topics

Oct. 29

Open

Nov. 1

Seminar Meeting: Readings and Discussion

Robert Rosenstone, “History in Images/History in Words: Reflections on the Possibility of Really Putting History onto Film, American Historical Review 93 (1988): 1173-1185

 “A Conversation between Eric Foner and John Sayles,” Past Imperfect: History according to the Movies, ed. Mark C. Carnes, pp. 11-29

History and Film as Social Critiques

Lone Star by John Sayles

Jonathan Lipman

Nov. 5

Seminar Meeting:

Michel Foucault, the Preface to The Order of Things (CP 3)

Benedict Anderson, "Census, Map, Museum" from Imagined Communities (CP 3)

Nov. 8

Film: Lone Star by John Sayles

Nov. 12

Discussion

“A Conversation between Eric Foner and John Sayles,” Past Imperfect: History according to the Movies, ed. Mark C. Carnes, pp. 11-29

Nov. 15

No class

Xala: Interpreting Post-Colonial Africa

Holly Hanson

Nov. 19

Seminar Meeting

The Creation of the Post-Colonial State in Africa

Kevin Shillington, “The winning of independence” and “Africa since independence” in History of Africa, pp. 373-4, 378-380, 407-415. (CP 3)

Rene Dumont, False Start in Africa,  (originally published, 1962), pp. 19-23, 78-97, 239-255.

Larry Diamond, “Class Formation in the Swollen African State,” Journal of Modern African Studies 25 (1987), 567-596.

Nov. 21

Break      

Nov. 26

Film : Xala

Ousmane Sembène, Xala, pp. 1-103.

Nov. 29

Seminar Meeting: Discussion of Xala

Nwachuku Frank Ukadike, “Cultural Context of Black African Cinema”,  in Black African Cinema, pp. 178-182. (CP 3)

Joseph Gugler and Oumar Cherif, “ The Two Incarnations of Ousmane Sembene's Xala and Their Audiences, Research in African literatures, 1998, vol. 29, no. 2 (CP 3)

Dec. 3

No class: extended office hours, 1 to 5 p.m.

Dec. 6

Film: Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Dec. 10

Presentations (Group E) and Discussion  (Course evaluations at the beginning)

Dec. 13

Presentations (Groups B and D) and Discussion

Robert Rosenstone, “History in Images/History in Words: Reflections on the Possibility of Really Putting History onto Film, American Historical Review 93 (1988): 1173-1185 (CP)