FR 489

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French & Comparative Cinema II

Credit: 4 hours.

The art, techniques, sociology, politics of French cinema in the context of French culture, world history, and general film development from approximately 1950 to the present. Selected trends studied through films from several countries with stress on major French filmmakers including Clouzot, Bresson, Chabrol, Resnais, Godard, Truffaut, Berri, Varda, Blier, Marker, Rohmer, and Costa-Gavras. Meets 6 hours a week.

Same as CINE 489, CWL 489, and HUM 489. Knowledge of French not required. Prerequisite: One college-level cinema studies course (FR 488 preferred) or consent of instructor.

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FR 489 class schedule data for fall 2009
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	46954	Lecture-Discussion	G	3:00PM -4:50PM	TR	147 Armory	Flinn, M	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/24/09-12/09/09 Credit: 4 hours Section Info: Celebrating the centennial of film in 1996, the French National Library put on a exhibition entitled �Le Cin�ma aux rendez-vous des arts: 1918-1939� (which we might translate as �Cinema at the Crossroads of the Arts�) It is logical to inventory the relationships between cinema and other art forms for the Interwar period because it was in these years that film truly crystallized as a narrative form and become widely accepted as being le septi�me art (the seventh art). However, it remains striking that the cinema itself has never ceased to question and indeed to represent its relationship to the six classical arts (painting, poetry, sculpture, theater, architecture, music), as well as looking at and situating itself in relationship to photography, and new media art. Since to this day, French �national cinema� remains internationally famous as an �art cinema�, it seems particularly suitable to organize this course around the intersections of cinema and the other arts. The course nonetheless remains a �survey� in the sense that it will treat major movements, directors and issues in French cinema of the second half of the 20th century: the post-war years, film noir, the New Wave and the role of the Cahiers du cin�ma, le cin�ma du look, heritage film, documentary, feminism, New Wave directors in the �post-New Wave�, the banlieue, digital video, new media, globalization. Major course goals are developing sequence analysis skills and appropriately integrating historical or theoretical questions in discussion and written work. Readings are pieces of primary (i.e. theory) and secondary film criticism and history. All readings are available in English and films are shown in original French, subtitled in English. Some experience in either cinema studies or French culture/literature required (although expertise in neither is presumed).