230584 Bodies, Meat & Fear – Narratives of Carnivores and Cannibalism from the Americas (S) (WiSe 2016/2017)

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Stories of man-eating human and nonhuman beings have been said dead many times, but the myths live on in mainstream and subculture alike. While the topic even left its footprints in silent films of Disney (like 'Alice Cans the Cannibals' from 1925), representations of primitive, bloodthirsty Others are still surrounding us, as Ridley Scott’s '1492: Conquest of Paradise' (1992), in comedy films, the Indiana Jones adventures, Verbinski’s 'Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest' (2006) or the attacking indigenous people in Peter Jackson’s 'King Kong' (2005), just to name a few famous examples. Even though different further representations vary from the classic stereotypes to attempts of criticizing (post)colonialism or socioeconomic surroundings (for the latter, see for example 'Somos lo que hay' by Jorge Michel Grau, 2010), mainstream media still constantly reproduce old comic-relief like narratives of boiling caldrons, Hannibal Lecter being one of very few exceptions, seemingly the more frightening due to his white, academic identity. We want to “hunt” the motif and history of cannibalism analyzing political and aesthetic contexts in order to gain more sensitivity for this, highly underestimated, visual and narrative topos.

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Ideally, you should have already completed both or one of the courses "Analysing and Interpreting Literary Texts" (British/American Literature) from BM 2 and "Writing" from BM 1. If you have not, this does not exclude you from the course, but please let me know, since you might need specific support/material (related to the essays).

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23-ANG-AngPM3 Profilmodul 3: American Studies PM 3. 3 US American Literatures and Media Study requirement
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23-ANG-AngVM2 Vertiefungsmodul 2: The Americas/ Interamerican Studies VM 2.2 The Americas: Culture and Literature Study requirement
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VM 2.3 The Americas: Film and Media Study requirement
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23-ANG-AngVM4 Vertiefungsmodul 4: Anglophone Studies Anglophone Literatures and Cultures Study requirement
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23-ANG-AngVM5 Vertiefungsmodul 5: Theories & Ideologies VM 5.3 Cultural Theory Study requirement
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23-ANG-AngVM6 Vertiefungsmodul 6: Media, Arts & Communication VM 6.1 Theoretical and Historical Contexts Study requirement
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1.) Participation in one expert group, i.e. responsibility for the discussion moderation of one session. This means: The expert group gives an impulse – like a working hypothesis, an interesting quote, a specific film scene or other medial input, a question, an idea etc. − to start the session topic and each group member has to participate verbally active (articulating a discussion input in form of a question, statement, reply or comment) at least once. Please do not give presentations or long introductory talks, but just the explained starter and catalyzing inputs (as they are needed for any fruitful discussion).
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