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Root number
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515701 |
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Semester
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FS2026 |
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Type of course
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Allocation to subject
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Musicology |
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Type of exam
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Seminar paper |
| Title |
Hollywood: Words, Moving Images, and Music (Seminar) |
| Description |
Hollywood, if Marilyn Monroe is to be believed, “is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.” Maybe. Certainly, the influence of the glitzy cradle of innumerable movies has been second to none, not only in America. In this collaborative seminar, co-taught by the Institute of Musicology and the Department of English, we will look in detail at the various components contributing to a choice of Hollywood movies from different genres and periods. How do words, moving images, and music complement each other? Can they to be understood on their own or only in conjunction with one another? We will moreover delve into questions of adaptation by exploring how literary texts were turned into big cinema; as the popular writer Stephen King observed, “books and movies are like apples and oranges. They both are fruit, but taste completely different.” In this seminar, we will not only taste of both fruits, but flavor them with the sweetness of music—pineapple? papaya? mango?...
We will look at a series of fillms, that are considered key for Hollywoods history and some that belong to the core of film history and film music:
Casablanca, Micheal Curtiz 1942
The Searchers, John Ford 1942
Vertigo, Alfred Hitchcock 1957
The Pawnbroker, Sidney Lumet 1958
Once upon a time in the West, Sergio Leone 1968 |
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ILIAS-Link (Learning resource for course)
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Registrations are transmitted from CTS to ILIAS (no admission in ILIAS possible).
ILIAS
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Link to another web site
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| Lecturers |
Prof. Dr.
Cristina Urchueguía, Institute of Musicology ✉
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Prof. Dr.
Axel Stähler, Institute of English Languages and Literatures ✉
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ECTS
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6 |
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Recognition as optional course possible
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Yes |
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Grading
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1 to 6 |
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| Dates |
Monday 14:15-16:00 Weekly
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| Rooms |
Seminarraum 120, Mittelstrasse 43
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