PART 3. BOOM YEARS: THE FIFTIES AND SIXTIES
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Week 6. Mon Oncle & End of Empire
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Mon 2/13
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Mon Oncle & The Transformation of Europe
Before CLASS:
- Read Victoria de Grazia, Irresistible Empire: America’s Advance Through 20th Century Europe (2005) [selections]- available in our Moodle Readings folder
- Read blog post on film on our Course Website (available by Sunday at 5pm)
In Class:
- Handout: Paper #1 Assignment
- Discuss economic transformation, consumerism, Americanization
- Discuss Mon Oncle
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Wed 2/15 |
The End of Empire
Before CLASS:
- Read Hitchcock, ch. 6, “Winds of Change: The End of the European Empires” (162-192)
- Read handout: “How to Think (and Talk and Write) Like a Historian” – on our Handouts page
- Read paper assignments (Research Paper Assignment and Paper #1 Assignment) – on our Handouts page
- Give some thought to what you’d like to do for your paper
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FILM SHOWING
- No group film screening on Thursday night! Watch the film on your own on our Stream Channel
- Note: the film is also available on Kanopy – a film streaming service which has an impressive collection of films, free to the COW community
- Battle of Algiers. Dir. Gillo Pontecorvo, 1965, Algeria/Italy, 125 min.
- Complete the Film & History Worksheet before class on Monday
- Film Commentaries (due Sunday by 5pm) from:
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Weekend |
Plan for First Paper
- Due Saturday 2/18 by noon
- Submit as pdf on Moodle
- See Paper #1 assignment and Research Paper assignment – on our Handouts page
- For the Research Paper – see explanation on assignment – you need a 300 word statement of interest and initial bibliography
- For Paper #1 – write a few sentences to explain the film you intend to write about, the outside source you have (or intend to find), and your ideas for interpretation
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Week 7. Battle of Algiers & Fifties in the East (and West)
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Mon 2/20 |
Algerian War & The Challenges of Decolonization
Befoer Class:
- Read “The Twilight of Imperialism” from Perry, et al, eds., Sources of Twentieth-Century Europe – available in our Moodle Readings folder
- Jawaharlal Nehru, “India’s Resentment of British Rule” (1942-5)
- Ho Chi Minh, “Declaration of Independence of the Republic of Vietnam, September 2, 1945”
- Ferhat Abbas, “The Provisional Government of the Algerian Republic Demands Independence” (1960)
- Read blog post on film on our Course Website (available by Sunday at 5pm)
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Wed 2/22
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The Fifties & Sixties, East & West
Before CLASS:
- Do some serious preparation for your paper! You should know the film you are writing on and the historical interpretation you plan to present. Bring to class a brief outline of your paper that you can share with your classmates
- Read Hitchcock, ch. 7, “Hope Betrayed: The Khrushchev Years, 1953-1964” (193-220)
- Skim Hitchcock, ch. 8, “The Gaullist Temptation: Western Europe in the 1960s” (221-241). For our purposes, it is enough to read the introduction to the chapter. I’ll present some of this material in class.
In CLASS:
- Battle of Algiers as fantasy
- Eastern Europe After Stalin
- And Western Europe
- Paper workshop
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FILM SHOWING
- No group film screening on Thursday night! Watch the film on your own on our Stream Channel
- Note: the film is also available on Kanopy – a film streaming service which has an impressive collection of films, free to the COW community
- Cleo from 5 to 7. Dir. Agnes Varda, 1962, France, 90 min.
- Complete the Film & History Worksheet before class on Monday
- Film Commentaries (due Sunday by 5pm) from
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PAPER #1 Or RESEARCH PROPOSAL
- Due Saturday 2/25 by noon posted as a pdf to Moodle
- See Paper #1 Assignment or Research Paper Assignment
- No need to turn in hard copy
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Week 8. Cleo and the Sixties
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Mon 2/27
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Cleo, Consumer Society & 1968
Before CLASS:
- Read “The Perils of Prosperity: The Unrest of Youth in the 1960s,” in Merry Wiesner, et al., Discovering the Western Past – available in our Moodle Readings folder
- This reading from a documentary reader includes an introduction to youth movements of the 1960s and to primary sources from France and Czechoslovakia. The sources speak to the tumult of the mid to late 1960s, years that followed Cleo From 5 to 7
- It has a lot of examples. Don’t get bogged down in the details! Highlight three or four examples that you can present in class
- Read blog post on film on our Course Website (available by Sunday at 5pm)
Clips related to Class:
n CLASS:
- The Sixties!
- May ’68 in Paris
- Cléo From 5 to 7
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Wed 3/1 |
The Revolutionary 60s
Before CLASS:
- If you haven’t already, read over the source from Monday on youth protest in France and Czechoslovakia
- What were students protesting in France?
- What was at stake in Czechoslovakia?
- How did these protest movements work out?
- Read Hitchcock, “Part Three: Rebels” (243-246)
- Take note of Hitchcock’s chronology and periodization. How do you mark a new period of postwar European history?
- Read Hitchcock, ch. 9, “Europe and Its Discontents: 1968 and After,” pp. 247-251
- There is a lot in this chapter. Just read these few pages on May ’68 in Paris. Feel free to read on for anything else that interests you!
- Read Hitchcock, ch. 11, “Cracks in the Wall: Eastern Europe, 1968-1981,” pp. 288-293
- Another chapter with a lot of information. I only assign these pages on the Prague Spring. Again, feel free to dabble in anything else that catches your eye.
- Prepare to speak for the following perspectives. I’m going to ask you to do so in class on Wednesday
- 1. Student protesters in Paris in 1968
- 2. President DeGaulle
- 3. French voters in June 1968
Clips related to Class:
- “Tonight Let’s All Make Love in London” (1967) – experimental documentary from Peter Whitehead on pop music and culture in 60s London – online on Vimeo
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FILM SHOWING
- No group film screening on Thursday night! Watch the film on your own on our Stream Channel
- The Joke (Zert). Dir. Jaromil Jires, 1969, Czechoslovakia, 80 min.
- Complete the Film & History Worksheet before class on Monday
- Film Commentaries (due Sunday 3/27 before class by 5pm) from
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Week 9. The Joke & Exam #2
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Mon 3/6
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The Joke & Eastern Europe in the 50s and 60s
Before CLASS:
- Read Perry, et al, Sources of Twentieth-Century Europe (2000) – available in our Moodle Readings folder
- “Dubcek Government Commission of Inquiry on Political Trials [on the Czechoslovak political trials of 1950-1954” (1968)
- “The Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, “Action Program” (1968)
- Read blog post on film on our Course Website (available by Sunday at 5pm)
- Review Exam #2 Study Guide – on our Handouts page
In CLASS:
- Czechoslovakia and the Prague Spring
- Show Trials of the Fifties and the Communist Action Program
- The Joke
- Exam Prep
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Wed 3/8
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Exam #2 & The Roots of Dissent in Eastern Europe
In Class:
- EXAM #2
- After the exam, I will present material from:
- Hitchcock, “Part Three: Rebels” (243-246)
- Hitchcock, ch. 11, “Cracks in the Wall: Eastern Europe, 1968-1981” (288-310)
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Film
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FILM SHOWING
- No group film screening on Thursday night! Watch the film on your own on our Stream Channel
- Note: the film is also available on Kanopy – a film streaming service which has an impressive collection of films, free to the COW community
- Blind Chance. Dir. Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1982, Poland, 122 min. Viewer advisory for nudity, sex…
- Complete the Film & History Worksheet before class on Monday
- Film Commentaries (due Sunday by 5pm) from
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