FR 341 Le cinéma français / FRENCH CINEMA             Mid-semester dossier  45%

Jean-Jacques Thomas                                                   Final exam 45%

Fall 2016                                                                         Active class participation  10%

Theme "Crime doesn't pay" French film and ethical values

Tuesday  & Thursday  12:30 - 1:50

 

Mandatory textbook: Course web site http://www.ieeff.org/ub341S16.html

                                                                                  ELEMENTARY FRENCH VOCABULARY FOR FILM STUDIES

Suggested: Marilyn Fabe, Closely Watched Films, University of California, 10e ed., 2014.

 

Class presence is mandatory. Any absence should be justified with a note preferably in advance

 

SYLLABUS

August

T 30 : Introduction / presentation of the course. Goals of the course. Structure of the course. Short history of French cinema.

September

Th  1 :  Short history of French cinema. The innovations of the "New Wave" (Godard, Truffaut, Rohmer, etc.), the current film directors and directions.  

T 6 :  Th 8                         Fantomas and the early French Mystery characters  

 

T 13 :Th 15 :                              Arsene Lupin, the likable criminal - the early tradition

                    

T 20 : Th 22 :  T 27 :                         Lacombe Lucien, Louis Malle

Th 29                            Maigret , the French detective observer of the social surroundings

October

T 4 :  Th 6 :             

 

T 11:  Th 13:                                           La Cérémonie,  Chabrol

 

T 18 :  Th 20 :                              Ascenseur pour l'échafaud, Louis Malle

 

T 25:  Th 27:                                            Plein Soleil, René Clément                                        

 November

T 1 :  Th  3:    T 8:                               Le Samourai, Jean-Pierre Melville                           

 

Th 10 :  T 15  :                                  Week-end, Jean-Luc Godard    

  

Th 17 : T 22                            La Mariée était en noir, François Truffaut 

                                                 

 Thanksgiving Recess      

                                                                

T 29                                                     Les Lyonnais,  Olivier  Marchal

 December                                             

Th 1:

 

T6 :  Th 8 :                                       Mesrine, ennemi public no 1, Jean-François Richet

                                                                                                                       

                                   

 

 

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