32112
Lecture
American Modernities
Frank Kelleter
Information for students
All participants should be registered via Blackboard and Campus Management by the first session. If you cannot register online, please contact Prof. Kelleter before the beginning of the term. Requirements and Organization: See Syllabus and Course Description in the “Teaching” section of Prof. Kelleter’s JFKI website or on Blackboard (go to “Kursmaterial”; you may have to click on “open Syllabus here” to download it; if this doesn’t work, try a different browser: students have reported problems with the Chrome browser). Please note that this course is listed as a three-hour “Vorlesung mit integriertem Tutorium.” However, participants will gain credit on the basis of the regular two-hour (4-6) lecture slot; attendance of the additional hour (“tutorial” with further time for Q&A, 6-7) is optional. close
Comments
This lecture course deals with American culture between the 1910s and the 1940s: a period that saw the birth of new technologies (of production, representation, and destruction), along with far-ranging revolutions in the organization of knowledge. Sociology, ethnology, psychoanalysis, and other disciplines emerged in the early 20th century as new modes of theorizing modernity. “Modernity” itself was often perceived and propagated as a distinctly American phenomenon. Our topics in this lecture course include: early film; the New Immigration; the Hollywood studio system; the Great War and modernist aesthetics (fiction, poetry, drama); the “New Negro” movement and the Harlem Renaissance; radio and the New Deal; the Southern agrarians and anti-modern modernisms. close
14 Class schedule
Regular appointments
Tue, 2026-04-14 16:00 - 19:00
Tue, 2026-04-21 16:00 - 19:00
Tue, 2026-04-28 16:00 - 19:00
Tue, 2026-05-05 16:00 - 19:00
Tue, 2026-05-12 16:00 - 19:00
Tue, 2026-05-19 16:00 - 19:00
Tue, 2026-05-26 16:00 - 19:00
Tue, 2026-06-02 16:00 - 19:00
Tue, 2026-06-09 16:00 - 19:00
Tue, 2026-06-16 16:00 - 19:00
Tue, 2026-06-23 16:00 - 19:00
Tue, 2026-06-30 16:00 - 19:00
Tue, 2026-07-07 16:00 - 19:00
Tue, 2026-07-14 16:00 - 19:00