RLFR 206
Outsiders in French and Francophone Film: Cinematic Adaptations of Literary Texts
Last Offered Spring 2016
Division I Exploring Diversity Initiative
This course is not offered in the current catalog

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In this course students will examine the figure of the outsider (queer, black, woman, intruder, loner) in several French and Francophone literary texts and their film adaptations and will explore questions such as: how are such outsiders translated onto the screen? To what extent does outsider status help maintain, challenge or reveal hegemonic discourse? This course fulfills the college Exploring Diversity requirement because its asks in what ways do non-Western and Western filmmakers (re)cast power and privilege through the figure of the outsider in their film adaptations (of Western canonical texts). Students will read original French and Francophone literary texts and apply theories of film adaptation to their analyses.
The Class: Format: seminar
Limit: 20
Expected: 20
Class#: 3713
Grading: yes pass/fail option, no fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation: one 6-page paper, first draft, journaling on film elements, presentation
Extra Info: not available for the fifth course option
Prerequisites: RLFR 105, 106, or 107, and permission of instructor
Enrollment Preferences: French majors and certificate students, those who have completed RLFR 105, 106, or 107, or those who have placed into this level from the French Placement Test
Distributions: Division I Exploring Diversity Initiative

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