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 six 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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CRN	Type	Section	Time	Days	Location	Instructor
46954	lecture- discussion	G	03:00 PM - 04:50 PM	MW	room G17 Foreign Languages Bldg	Flinn, M
4 hours This course covers 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 cinema, le cinema du look, heritage film, documentary, feminism, New Wave directors in the "post-New Wave", the banlieue, digital video, new media, globalization. Directors studied include: Cocteau, Clouzot, Resnais, Godard, Marker, Varda, Beineix, Kassovitz, Assayas. As French "national cinema" remains internationally famous to this day as an "art cinema," we will follow of the relationship between cinema, the six classical arts (painting, poetry, sculpture, theater, architecture, & music) as well as photography, new media art and cinema itself. Readings are relatively short 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. French 489 and 552 meet concurrently.

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FR 489French & Comparative Cinema II

FR 489
French & Comparative Cinema II