JWST 315 - Jews, Jewish Identity and the Arts

Semester Offered: Spring
1 unit(s)

A course on film exploring different conceptions and projections of memory work, beginning with Freud’s psychoanalytic theory of “screen memories” and including H. Bergson’s philosophical account of memory and sociologist M. Halbwach’s understanding of “collective memory.” There is a wide selection of films with regard to the time and place of production, focusing on the intersections between general questions about the construction and representation of memory and Jewish memory practices. Andrew Bush.

One 2-hour period and individual conferences with the instructor.