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Film Screening: Touristic Intents—Can a Building be Guilty?*

Event Type
Film Screening
Sponsor
Organized by Anke Pinkert, Germanic Languages and Literatures, and co-sponsored by Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies; the School of Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics; the Humanities Research Institute; the European Union Center; Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center; the Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures
Location
Levis 210
Date
Nov 4, 2024   5:00 pm  
Speaker
Mat Rappaport (Director)
Contact
Anke Pinkert
E-Mail
pinkert@illinois.edu
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Originating Calendar
Germanic Events

touristic intents is a feature documentary film that explores the connection between mass tourism and political ideology. The film is centered on a case study: the never-completed Nazi resort of Prora, on Germany’s Baltic Sea, which was built on a mammoth scale beginning in 1936 to house 20,000 vacationing working-class Germans. This 4-mile-long building was used in propaganda to forward a promise of leisure time for the masses and strengthen sympathies between the workers and the Nazi party. The film asks: Is there an obligation to remember a building’s dark past?

Mat Rappaport, a filmmaker and scholar, is the Donald W. Klein Professor of the Practice in Film and Media Studies at Tufts University. 

*Film screening will be followed by Q & A with Mat Rappaport (Director).

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