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.

Section Information
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Days	Location	Instructor
43725	lecture- discussion	R	03:00 PM - 04:50 PM	MW	room 1134 Foreign Languages Bldg	Flinn, M
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 552Studies French & Comp Cinema

FR 552
Studies French & Comp Cinema