FR 552

Fall 2010 All Classes

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Studies French & Comp Cinema

Credit: 4 hours.

Historical, aesthetic, social, and technical studies of the French cinema; its development and relation to world cinema and to literature.

Same as CWL 552. May be repeated to a maximum of 12 hours.

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FR 552 class schedule data for fall 2010
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	37699	Lecture-Discussion	G	3:30PM -5:20PM	R	1038 Foreign Languages Building	Flinn, M	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/23/10-12/08/10 Section Info: Meets concurrently with FR 443G3. The Social Space of Interwar French Film This course focuses on the cinema in interwar France as a case study through which graduate students will explore the relationship between film and the cultural imaginary, particularly the construction of social space. Major themes to be studied include: silent cinema, adaptation and specificity debates, the avant-garde, early sound, tensions between realist and experimental modes of representation (the fantastique social, poetic realism, surrealism, etc), colonialist cinema, militant cinema of the Popular Front, the musical comedy, women and the working class in popular cinema, Paris-banlieue-province. Readings include seminal French theoretical/critical works of the 1920s-40s, as well as recent critical texts and cultural histories. Required weekly screenings to be scheduled at the beginning of the semester. Solid French aural comprehension and reading skills required (not all films/readings available in subtitled copies/translation.)