1 (21.2.). Screening of Laurence Olivier’s Henry V: The Chronicle History of King Henry the Fift with His Battell Fought at Agincourt in France (1944). 137 min !!!

I: Shakespeare's Henry V

2 (28.2.). Shakespeare's play Henry V

3 (6. 3.). LONG SESSION: Laurence Olivier and the War Effort: Henry V, William K. Howard’s Fire over England. and Frank Capra’s Battle of Britain (Why We Fight. Vol. 4)

4. (13.3.). Screening of Kenneth Branagh’s Henry V (1989). 132 min !!!

6. (3. 4.). Kenneth Branagh's historicist remake Henry V.

II: The American Civil War

7. (10.4.). Fleming's melodramatic re-appropriation: Gone with the Wind

8. (17.4.). Ang Lee's Asian-American perspective: Ride with the Devil

9. (24.4.). The Issue of Race in Edward Zwick: Glory

III: Iconographies of WWII

10. (8. 5.). Battle Scenes

11. (15.5.). No class - more time to read Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow

12. (22. 5.). Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow

13. (29. 5). Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow

Serminar Wars - Bibliography

GENERAL

Walter Benjamin, “Nachwort” zu “Das Kunstwerk im Zeitalter seiner technischen Reproduzierbarkeit”. In: Illumination. Ausgewählte Schriften. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp 1977.
-- "Zur Kritik der Gewalt". In: Gesammelte Schriften. Band II.1. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp 1980
Andrew Bennett and Nicholas Royle. "War". In: Introduction to Literature, Culture and Theory. Harlow: Pearson Longman 2004.
Joanna Bourke. An Intimate History of Killing. London: Granta 1999.
Michel Foucault. Vom Licht des Krieges zur Geburt der Geschichte. Berlin: Merve Verlag 1986.
-- "Right of Death and Power over Life". In: The History of Sexuality. An Introduction. Volume 1. New York: Vintage 1990.
-- “Il faut défendre la société”. Cours au Collège de france (1975-76). Paris: Seuil 1997.
Sigmund Freud. "Zeitgemäßes über Krieg und Tod". Gesammelte Werke X. Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer 1946.
-- "Trauer und Melancholie". Gesammelte Werke X. Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer 1946.
-- Jenseits des Lustprinzips. Gesammelte Werke XIII. Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer 1940.
-- Das Unbehagen in der Kultur. Gesammelte Werke XIV. Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer 1948.
-- "Warum Krieg?" Gesammelte Werke XVI. Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer 1950.
-- “Massenpsychologie und Ich-Analyse.” Gesammelte Werke XIII. Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer 1940.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. Phänomenologie des Geistes. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp 1970.
-- Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp 1970.
Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe. Hegemony and Socialist Strategy. Towards a Radical Democratic Politics (2nd Edition). London/New York: Verso 2001.
Jean-Luc Nancy. "War, Law, Sovereignty - Techné". In: Rethinking Technologies. Ed. by Verena Andermatt Conley. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press 1993.
Friedrich Nietzsche. Jenseits von Gut und Böse. Sämtliche Werke. Kritische Ausgabe. Band 5. München: DTV 1980.
-- Zur Genealogie der Moral. Sämtliche Werke. Kritische Ausgabe. Band 5. München: DTV 1980.
Jacqueline Rose. Why War? Oxford: Blackwell 1993.
Susan Sontag. Regarding the Pain of Others. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2003.
Sun Tzu. The Art of War. Harmondsworth:Penguin 2005.
Carl Von Clausewitz. On War. London: Routledge,& Kegan Paul 1908.
Samuel Weber. "Wartime". In: Violence, Identity, and Self-Determination. Ed. by Hent de Vries. Stanford: Stanford University Press 1997.
-- Targets of Opportunity. On the Militarization of Thinking. New York: Fordham Univeresity Press 2005.
Slavoj Zizek. Iraq. The Borrowed Kettle. London/New York: Verso 2004.
-- Violence. London: Profile Books 2008.


SHAKESPEARE

Simon Barker. War and Nation in the Theater of Shakespeare and his
Contemporaries. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press 2007.
Lynda E. Boose and Richard Burt. Shakespeare. The Movie. Popularizing the Plays
on Film, TV, and Video. London: Routledge 1997.
-- Shakespeare. The Movie II. Popularizing the Plays on Film, TV, Video and DVD.
London: Routledge 2003.
Mark Thornton Burnett and Ramona Wray. Screening Shakespeare in the Twenty-
First Century. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press 2006.
Anthony Davies and Stanley Wells (eds.). Shakespeare and the Moving Image. The Plays on Film and Television. Cambridge: University of Cambridge Preses 1994.
Marjorie Garber. Shakespeare After All. New York: Pantheon 2004.
Stephen Greenblatt. "Invisible Bullets: Renaissance Authority and Its Subversion in Henry IV and Henry V." In: Shakespearean Negotiations: The Circulation of Social Energy in Renaissance England. Berkeley: University of California Press 1988.
-- (ed.) The Norton Shakespeare. New York: Norton 1997.
Diana E. Henderson (Ed). A Concise Companion to Shakespeare on Screen. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers 2005.
Maurice Hindle. Studying Shakespeare on Film. Houndmills: Palgrave 2007.
Graham Holderness. Shakespeare's History Plays. Richard II to Henry V. New Casebooks. Houndmills: Macmillan 1992.
Russell Jackson. The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare in Film. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2007.
Carolyn Jess-Cooke. Shakespeare on Film. Such Things as Dreams are Made of. London: Wallflower Press 2007.
Robert Shaughnessy. Shakespeare on Film. New Casebooks. Houndmills: Methuen
1998.
Nick de Somogyi. Shakespeare’s Theater of War. Aldershot: Ashgate 1998.


WAR, CINEMA AND AMERICAN CULTURE

Leo Braudy. From Chivalry to Terrorism. War and the Changing Nature of
Masculinity. New York: Alfred Knopf 2003.
Nick Browne (ed.) Refiguring American Film Genres. Theory and History. Berkeley:
University of California Press 1998.
Robert Burgoyne. Film Nation. Hollywood Looks at U.S. History. Minneapolis:
University of Minnesota Press 1997.
Bruce Chadwick. The Reel Civil War. Mythmaking in American Film. New York:
Alfred Knopf 2001.
Robert Eberwein (ed). The War Film. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press
2005.
Thomas Klien, Marcus Stiglegger und Bodo Traber. Filmgenres. Kriegsfilm. Stuttgart: Reclam Verlag 2006.
Peter C. Rollins (ed.). The Columbia Companion to American History on Film. How the Movies have Portrayed the American Past. New York: Columbia University Press 2003.
Goerge Brown Tindall & David E. Shi. America. A Narrative History. New York: Norton 1984.
Robert Sklar. Movie-Made America. A Cultural History of American Movies. New
York: Vintage 1975.
David Slocum (ed.) Hollywood and War. The Film Reader. London: Routledge 2006.
Richard Slotkin. Gunfighter Nation. The Myth of the Frontier in 20th Century America.
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press 1998.
Paul Virilio. Krieg und Kino. Logistik der Wahrnehmung. München: Hanser 1986.
Guy Westwell. War Cinema. Hollywood on the Front Line. London: Wallflower 2006.
Michael Wood. America in the Movies. New York: Columbia University Press 1975.