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  • Film Studies 280f: Film Authorship

    3.00 Credits
    Mount Holyoke College

    This course offers a critical, historical, and theoretical approach to a specific cinematic author.While most courses focus on a director or group of directors, courses may also focus on designers, technicians, performers, producers, or some combination of these personnel.
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  • Film Studies 295fs: Independent Study

    4.00 Credits
    Mount Holyoke College

    Does not meet a distribution requirement The department, The department Prereq. soph, jr, sr, and permission of program; 1 to 4 credits
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  • Film Studies 310s: Production Seminar:Language/Image Advanced ProductionWorkshop

    3.00 Credits
    Mount Holyoke College

    An advanced production course examining relationships between language and image in film, video, and contemporary art practices. Text on screen, the grain of the voice, experimental screenplays, online projects and installation will inspire research and production. Prior work in video production required. Suitable for advanced students in video, installation, and performance. Students will also be required to write papers and give in-class presentations. Screenings and readings may include works by Acconci, Barthes, Benjamin, Brakhage, Cage, Chaplin, Chion, Edison, Frampton, Gatten, Gunning, Howe, Joyce, nauman, Melies, Murch, Ono, Rainer, Rose, Saussure, Snow, Trinh, Williams, and more. Meets Humanities I-A requirement J. Perlin Prereq. Permission of instructor; 1 meeting (3 hours), 1 screening (2 1/2 hours); a lab fee may be charged; Students must apply for entrance into this course. Please go to the art department for an application. Seniors will have priority.; 4 credits
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  • Film Studies 320f: Seminar in Film Studies

    3.00 Credits
    Mount Holyoke College

    Fall 2008 320f(01) Playing the Past: History on Stage and Film (Same as Theatre Arts 350f (01)) Theatre and film have a vast potential to portray, assert, question, and alienate ideas of history. Through close analyses of play texts, films and, when possible, live theatre performances, we'll examine the overt and implied views of history in dramatizations of historical events. The course will feature the work of artists ranging from Friedrich Schiller, Shakespeare, and Brecht to Martin Scorcese, Caryl Churchill, and Anna Deavere Smith, among others. Meets Humanities I-A requirement W.Weckworth Prereq. SeeTheatre Arts 350f (01); 4 credits 320(03) Modernism and the Cinema This seminar examines the history of modernism in the cinema, beginning with the early cinema of attractions and including surrealist cinema, Soviet cinema, filmmakers such as Carl Dreyer, Robert Bresson, and Ingmar Bergman, and concluding with the work of such American avant-garde filmmakers as Stan Brakhage and Hollis Frampton. Meets Humanities I-A requirement R. Blaetz Prereq. 8 credits in Film Studies including 201 or 202 or permission of instructor; 1 meeting (3 hours), 1 screening (2 hours); 4 credits 320(04) Visualizing Cultures (Same as Anthropology 310f ) (Component) Meets multicultural requirement D. Battaglia Prereq. Prereq. 8 credits in department or permission of instructor; 4 credits; 4 credits 320(05) Representations of Animals in American Film (Same as Theatre Arts 350s(01)/American Studies 301s(03)) Meets Humanities I-A requirement E. Rundle Prereq. American Studies 201, Intro to Study of American Culture; 8 credits in film studies; 4 credits
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  • Film Studies 340s: Topics in Experimental Film:American Avant-Garde Cinema

    8.00 Credits
    Mount Holyoke College

    (Writing-intensive course) Examines some aspect of the history and aesthetics of cinema made outside of the narrative practice of the classical Hollywood model. Some areas of focus include: surrealism and the cinema, American avant-garde cinema, or women's experimental cinema. Meets Humanities I-A requirement R. Blaetz Prereq. 8 credits in department including Film Studies 201 or 202 or permission of instructor; 1 meeting (3 hours), 1 screening (2 hours); 4 credits
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  • French 311fs: Period Courses

    3.00 Credits
    Mount Holyoke College

    The usual periodization of French literature and culture is by century. Some period courses focus on the characteristics of specific centuries. Others focus on artistic or intellectual movements: gothic, Renaissance, romantic. All period courses, whatever their conceptual framework, integrate texts and historical contexts. Fall 2008 311f(01) Topic: Christine de Pizan: Lyric Poet and Political Advocate (pre-1800) (Taught in English; Same as Medieval Studies 300F(01)) This seminar will examine the career, sources, and influence of France's first professional woman writer; exploring her uniquely varied contribution well beyond that of her famous feminist history, the City of Ladies. Along with this work, and the Romance of the Rose Debate, we shall also read selections from her innovative lyric poetry, critique of courtly romance, autobiography, manual for princes, biography of king Charles V, political and military treatises, and also religious poems and prose, culminating in her patriotic hymn to Joan of Arc. Meets Humanities I-A requirement N. Margolis Prereq. two of the following courses: French 215, 219, 225, or 230, or permission of department chair and course instructor; NOTE: French majors must do the readings and papers in French for credit toward the major; 4 credits Spring 2009 311s(01) Topic: From Baroque to Rococo: Viewpoints on Aristocratic Societies of the Ancien Régime (pre-1800) Through the study of novels, plays, and visual arts, we will contrast French society in the age of Baroque (when Louis XIV ruled with absolute authority,1660-1715) with the Rococo period that followed when French aristocrats enjoyed their privileged status adopting a life of selfish frivolity and libertinage (1615-1789).Works studied will include novels by Madame de Lafayette and Choderlos de Laclos; plays by Moliere, Marivaux, and Beaumarchais; and emblematic paintings of Baroque and Rococo artists. These times will be revisited through contemporary period films such as Le Roi danse ( 2000), Valmont (1989), Ridicule, and Marie-Antoinette (2006). Meets either language requirement or Humanities I-A requirement N. Vaget Prereq. two of the following courses: French 215, 219, 225, or 230, or permission of department chair and course instructor; 4 credits
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  • French 321s: Seminar in Romance Languages and Literatures:Topic:TheMind of the Traveler:Journeys,Expeditions,Tours

    3.00 Credits
    Mount Holyoke College

    (Taught in English; Same as Spanish 361, Italian 361, Romance Languages and Literatures 375, European Studies 316) Seminar discussions will be conducted in English, but students are expected to read works and write papers in French. Travel literature has always been a precious source for the study of culture, politics, arts, and, last but not least, people. From Caesar to Marco Polo, from Stendhal to Carmen de Burgos, we will read and discuss authors who traveled for political, personal, and recreational reasons.We will also pay special attention to tales of emigration and immigration in the third millennium. Meets Humanities I-A requirement O. Frau Prereq. Permission of instructor. Students who wish to receive 300-level credit in French must write their papers and do appropriate course readings in French.; 4 credits
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  • French 331s: Courses on Social and Political Issues and Critical Approaches:Topic:Breaking New Ground in French Cinema

    3.00 Credits
    Mount Holyoke College

    From the very beginning, innovation, experimentation, and artistic ambitions have shaped the evolution of French cinema. For more than a century, filmmaking in France has been defined by these innovations: Georges Méliès and the invention of specialeffects, Bu?el's antics, Jean Renoir's involvenarratives, the creative explosion of the new Wave, or today's adventurous directors. This class will focus on those movies and those directors that have transformed and expanded the art of cinema, and will include works by Cocteau, Varda, Pontecorvo, Godard, Clément, Truffaut, Carax, and many others. Meets either language requirement or Humanities I-A requiremenMount Holyoke College Bulletin & Course Cataloguet 2008 - 2009 F. Guévremont Prereq. two of the following courses: French 215, 219, 225, or 230, or permission of department chair and course instructor; 4 credits
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  • French 341f: Courses in Francophone Studies:Topic:Ousmane Sembène:L'Oeuvre d'u artist-militant

    3.00 Credits
    Mount Holyoke College

    Born in 1923 in Senegal, the writer/filmmaker Ousmane Sembène is one of the rare witnesses of the three key periods of contemporary African history: the colonial period; the period of struggle for political and economic independence; and the period of effort to eliminate neocolonialism through the rehabilitation of African cultures. This course is entirely devoted to the works of Ousmane Sembène and will explore the key moments of his life, his activism in European le?ist organizations, his discovery of writing, and most of all the dominant features of his film work. Meets either language requirement or Humanities I-A requirement S. Gadjigo Prereq. 215, 219, 225, or 230; 4 credits
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  • French 351fs: Courses onWomen and Gender

    3.00 Credits
    Mount Holyoke College

    These courses explore cultural, literary, and social issues relating to women and gender identities in France and French-speaking countries. Topics may include women's writing, writing about women and men, the status of women, feminist criticism, and theories of sexuality and sexual difference. Fall 2008 351f(01) Topic: Mothers and Daughters (Same as Gender Studies 333) Study of this crucial and problematic relationship in novels, films, and paintings by French-speaking women representing diverse cultures and historical periods. Exploration of the motherdaughter bond as literary theme, social institution, psychological dynamic, and metaphor for female creativity. Preliminary readings include founding myths and influential theories of family arrangements (Rousseau, Freud, Chodorow, Rich, Irigaray, Mernissi, nnaemeka). Major authors and films will be grouped cross-culturally by theme and may include: LaFayette, Charrière, Sand, Colette, Beauvoir, Ernaux, Hébert, Chen, Schwarz-Bart, Beyala, Bouraoui; La Maternelle; Indochine; Les Silences du palais. Meets either language requirement or Humanities I-A requirement E. Gelfand Prereq. two of the following courses: French 215, 219, 225, or 230, or permission of department chair and course instructor; 4 credits Spring 2009 351s(01) Topic: Love for Sale: The Figure of the Prostitute in French Literature and Culture (Same as Gender Studies 333) This course will examine the ubiquitous figure of the prostitute in works of narrative fiction by the great French authors of the nineteenth century (Balzac, Dumas, Maupassant, Zola). Specifically, we will analyze the ways in which the prostitute serves in so many texts as a reflection of broader social and literary questions: female sexuality, links between sex and money, family honor, the evolution of realism in narrative fiction, et al. Meets either language requirement or Humanities I-A requirement C. Rivers Prereq. two of the following courses: French 215, 219, 225, or 230, or permission of department chair and course instructor; 4 credits
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