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GRMN 22808 - Cyborgs and Serial Killers

Course Credit: 1
This discussion-based course taught in English explores images of the humanoid and the murderer in 19th and 20th century German fiction, film, and art. The material body is a site of violence, chaos, but also discipline and control. We will discuss the mechanical body in films like The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (dir. Robert Wiene, 1920) and Metropolis (dir. Fritz Lang, 1927); reproductive function in the mechanized female body in Irmgard Keun’s novel Gilgi–One of Us (1931); and serial killers and their female victims in films like Pandora’s Box (dir. Georg Wilhelm Pabst, 1929). [AH, C]