COMP
298
Introduction to French and Francophone Film
Last Offered Spring 2018
Division I
Cross-listed
RLFR 228
/ COMP 298
This course is not offered in the current catalog or this is a previous listing for a current course.
Class Details
In this course, we watch and examine seminal French and Francophone films. Starting with early French cinema and silent movies of the end of the nineteenth century, we continue with landmark films from the 1920s, ’30s and ’40s. World War II serves as a point of rupture to explore how the advent of Francophone film parallels postcolonial theory. Throughout the semester, we discuss film as spectacle, the emergence of narrative forms, innovative technical practice and their connection to aesthetics. We also look at the role of film in addressing larger questions that include acts of rebellion, decolonization, the radical rejection of societal values, colonialism, dislocation, alienation, French collaboration during the German occupation, and the intersection of history and biography, as well as migration, in between-ness, and transnationalism. Films from the Lumière brothers, Méliès, Guy-Blaché, Vigo, Truffaut, Sembene, Mambety, Malle, Varda, Palcy, Peck, and Sissako. Conducted in French.
The Class:
Format: seminar
Limit: 15
Expected: 12
Class#: 3414
Grading: yes pass/fail option, no fifth course option
Limit: 15
Expected: 12
Class#: 3414
Grading: yes pass/fail option, no fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation:
response papers, midterm paper, TV show, colloquium
Prerequisites:
RLFR 201, 202, or 203, or by permission of instructor
Distributions:
Division I
Notes:
This course is cross-listed and the prefixes carry the following divisional credit:
RLFR 228 Division I COMP 298 Division I
RLFR 228 Division I COMP 298 Division I
Attributes:
FMST Core Courses
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