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4.00 Credits
Advanced conversation based on newspapers, magazines and contemporary movies; analysis of different levels of language including "argot." Prerequisite: One course at the 300-level, or permission of the department. Enrollment limited to 15 students. C. Spencer
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4.00 Credits
Advanced composition with an emphasis on style. Samples for weekly practice of written expression taken from contemporary French newspapers and magazines. No grammar review. Prerequisite: One course at the 300 level, or permission of the department. Enrollment limited to 15 students. C. Spencer
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4.00 Credits
Introduction to the major playwrights of modern drama with a focus on the creation of onstage realities, the status of the "character," how the actor represents, and how playwrights make use ofor subvert audience expectation. Emphasis on two aspects of theater: the role of the body onstage and the role of language. Authors include: Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov, Jarry, Brecht, Pirandello, Ionesco, Beckett, Cocteau, Sartre, Miller, O'Neill, and Pinter. This is the same course as Comparative Studies in Culture 308 and English 310. R. Garelick
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2.00 Credits
Two French cinemas have long existed: one "big" cinemaabout the tumultuous political, cultural, and literary history of France, and one "small," personal cinema about a few characters and their lives. This course will examinewhat the differences in subject and scale mean for French film and culture. An additional weekly two-hour, two credit TOC session in French, 409T, will be offered to students who speak and read French beyond the intermediate level. Students selecting Course 409T must concurrently register for French 409. The TOC section is required for students who wish to count the course toward a major/minor in French. Weekly screenings. This is the same course as Film Studies 409. Prerequisite: Film Studies 101 or French 329; or permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 15 students. J. Austin
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2.00 Credits
Additional weekly two-hour session, in which texts and movies will be discussed in French. Students selecting Course 409T must concurrently register for French 409. Open to students who speak and read French beyond the intermediate level. Two credit hours. The TOC section is required for students who wish to count the course toward a major/minor in French. J. Austin
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4.00 Credits
This course will examine the crucial New Wave movement in French cinema, as it is expressed as a historical moment or "school" and as it is conceived in less temporal terms as an attitudetoward making and viewing film. The Nouvelle Vague's contribution to filmmaking as writing and as epistemological quest will be explored with reference to earlier filmmakers, and in relation to the parallel Rive Gauche group. Special emphasis will be placed on contemporary French cinema as inheriting the auteur tradition. Films by Bresson, Truffaut, Godard, Rohmer, Varda, Marker, Resnais, Beineix, Besson, Asseyas, Pool, Jeunet. Prerequisite: Two 300-level courses. Enrollment limited to 15 students. J. Austin
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4.00 Credits
An examination of the contribution of French women to modernism by reading literary texts, with some excursions into the visual arts as well. Questions to be raised include: the transition from realism to modernism; the influence of Freud; the role of colonialism; and the historical influence of early feminism. Authors will include: Rachilde, Renee Vivien, Colette, Duras, and Simone de Beauvoir. Other topics may include the role of women in surrealism and cinema. R. Garelick
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4.00 Credits
French novels and films will serve to examine the political, sexual, and familial dynamics of the coming of age narrative, and to shed light on the historical, political, and aesthetic contexts in which those narratives take place. Special attention will be given to how temporality is represented in visual and textual narratives. Prerequisite: Two 300-level French courses. Enrollment limited to 15 students. J. Austin
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4.00 Credits
The French city long has been defined in opposition to the countryside, and more recently, to the (dystopian) suburb. This course will examine the cinematic construction of urban space in France, and in so doing interrogate the role of the urban/suburban dyad in the contemporary French social landscape. Weekly screenings. Prerequisite: Two 300-level French courses. Enrollment limited to 18 students. J. Austin
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4.00 Credits
This course looks at the trope of speed in cultural representations from France in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Analyses of literature and film will help students grasp the role and place of speed and its corollaries (movement, acceleration, stasis, deceleration) in the evolution of French thought and artistic and literary expression. Prerequisite: Two 300-level French courses. Enrollment limited to 15 students. Staff
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