Fs265: The War Film

**Date**:May 23, 2025

**Location**: Waterloo, CA

**Company**:Wilfrid Laurier University

**Faculty/Academic Area**: Faculty of Arts

**Department**: English and Film Studies

**Campus**: Waterloo

**Employee Group**: WLUFA

**Requisition ID**:9553

**Position Title**: FS265: The War Film

**Term**: Fall 2025

**Days/Times**: Tues./Thurs. 10:00 - 11:20am

**Hours per week/Hours Total**: 3 / 36

**Type of Course**:In-Person

**Anticipated Class Size**: 55

**Additional Course Requirements**: n/a

**Posted on**: May 23, 2025

**Posting ends**: June 7, 2025

**Position Summary**:
A study of the war film as a genre from silent film to the present exploring historical, formal, and thematic innovations in the representation of war. Course topics may include combat, the home front, homecomings, prisoners-of-war, gender, race, realism, violence, sentimentalism and satire.

**Qualifications - Required**: MA

**Qualifications - Discipline**: Film/Cinema Studies or related discipline

**Qualifications - Areas of Specialization**:
**Qualifications - Other**: Experience teaching at the University level

**Application Deadline**: June 7, 2025

**Submit with Application**:
**Required for All Applicants
- CV (required)

Required for External Applicants
- Names and Contact Information for Referees
- Evidence of Good Teaching
- Verification of highest degree

Optional
- Cover Letter
- Teaching Dossier
- Sample Course Outline (2-pages maximum)

**Applications may be addressed to**:
Dr. Markus Poetzsch

Chair, English and Film Studies

**To Apply**:
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