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116-232/332 Imaging Change: French Cinema Since the New Wave

Availability: Not offered in 1996; expected to be offered in 1997.

Credit points: 16.7 2nd or 3rd year

Coordinator: Professor Colin Nettelbeck.

Prerequisite: 116-115 or 116-202 or equivalent

Contact: 3 hours of lectures/seminars a week.

Objectives:

Students who complete this subject should be able to:

• demonstrate familiarity with the practices and theoretical concerns of New Wave and post-New Wave film-makers in France;
• analyse the social and cultural processes represented in selected films from the period studied;
• demonstrate an awareness of post-modern film criticism.

Content:

The New Wave in its social context; 'auteur' theory; cinematographic language; representations of social change; representations of an historical obsession (World War II); the post modern French thriller ('polar')

Assessment:

2 tests (one written, one visual) 2 hours (40 per cent); one essay (1,500 words) (30 per cent); one class paper subsequently written up (25 minutes) (30 per cent).

Recommended texts:

• Forbes Jill The Cinema in France after the New Wave Bloomington (Ind Univ Press) 1994
• Thiher, Alan The Cinematic Muse: Critical Studies in the History of French Cinema. Susan Hayward and Ginette Vincendeau (eds. ) French Film: Text and Contexts Routledge NY London 1990

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Handbook 1996 : Faculty of Arts (Volume 3 page 81)

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