FILM419M

Cross-listed with GERM689M and GERM449M. Credit only granted for GERM449M, GERM689M, or FILM419M. Touted as the most expensive German series ever made, Babylon Berlin has reached audiences around the globe since its inception in 2017. Set in Berlin during the final years of the Weimar Republic, the series offers viewers a panoramic take on class, gender, and sexual relations in the German capital. This course will develop a critical approach to Babylon Berlin as a blockbuster production of neoliberal media culture by examining a range of topics, including its aesthetic form and citational style; the role of digital media in its international distribution, reception, and fandom; and its transhistorical mode of representation. A key focus will be the show s intermedial engagement with Weimar film theory, culture, and politics. Taught in English.