Sandy Frieden
Modern and Classical Languages
Assistant Professor
Office: 613 Agnes Arnold Hall
Phone: 713-743-3700
Email: sfrieden@uh.edu
Sandy Frieden is an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Modern & Classical Languages and has taught numerous courses in German Film since 1982. She is the lead editor for the two-volume study, Gender and German Cinema: Feminist Interventions; the author of Autobiography: Self Into Form‹German Language Autobiographical Writings of the 1970s; and articles on New German Cinema. Her courses emphasize critical thinking and analysis of film within its political, historical and sociological contexts, including issues of gender, race, ethnicity and nationalism. Students are encouraged to formulate their responses to films; to analyze the relationship between the structure of the film and the messages conveyed; and to listen to and respond to the ideas of others in the class. Sandy Frieden’s courses count toward the Creative Arts Core, and also (by petition) for Women¹s Studies and Honors.
Critical Studies Courses
- GERM 3385 - East German Cinema
- GERM 3381 - History of German Cinema [offered Spring 2018]
From the silent era (Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Metropolis), to sound and film noir (M), fascist ideology (Triumph of the Will) and post-war recovery (The Murderers Among Us), to New German Cinema and more recent films taking on the Nazi past (The Tin Drum, The Marriage of Maria Braun, Aguirre the Wrath of God, Jakob the Liar, Nowhere in Africa) and life in modern Germany (Wings of Desire, Run Lola Run), we will explore narrative, production, reception, and the politics of representation through a century of German Cinema.
- GERM 3384 - Fascism and German Cinema