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Handbook 1997 : Faculty of Arts : French

116-432 Imaging Change: French Cinema Since the New Wave

Credit Points:

16.7 4th year

Coordinator:

Professor Colin Nettelbeck

Prerequisite/s:

A major in French (Post-VCE stream).

Timetable:

Semester 2

Contact:

2-hours of lectures/seminars per week

Subject Description:

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:

One class paper subsequently written up (25 minutes) (30%); one film analysis (1500 words) (30%); one essay (3000 words) (40%).

Prescribed 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, U. Missouri Press, 1979.
  • Hayward, Susan and Ginette Vincendeau (eds), French Film: Text and Contexts, Routledge NY London 1990.
  • Hayward, Susan, French National Cinema, Routledge London/NY 1993.
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