Cold War Fiction
BA Seminar
Autumn 2011
Dr. Alexander Markin
Fridays, 12:15–13:45
1. (23/09) Introduction
2. (30/09) Screening: Them! (Gordon Douglas, 1954)
Nuclear fear
3. (7/10) Kiss me Deadly (R. Aldrich, 1955)
4. (14/10) The Birds (A. Hitchcock, 1963)
The Day After
5. (21/10) Pat Frank: Alas, Babylon (1959)
6. (28/10) The Day After (N. Meyer, 1983)
Post-Apocalyptic Landscapes
7. (04/11) J.G. Ballard: The Drowned World (1962)
8. (11/11) Anna Kavan: Ice (1967)
Cold War Family
9. (18/11) Edward Steichen’s Exhibition The Family of Men (1955) & 101 Dalmatians (W. Disney, 1961)
10. (25/11) Harold & Maude (H. Ashby, 1971)
Spy Fiction
11. (02/12) Ian Fleming: From Russia with Love (1957)
12. (09/12) Graham Greene: The Human Factor (1978)
The Cold War Revisited
13. (16/12) Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons: Watchmen, 1986.
14. (23/12) Invasion of the Body Snatchers (D. Siegel, 1956), Invasion of the Body Snatchers (P. Kaufman, 1978), Body Snatchers (A. Ferrara, 1993), Invasion (O. Hirschbiegel, 2007)