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 116-041 Imaging Change: French Cinema Since the New Wave

Note

Formerly available as 116-432. Students who have completed 116-432 are not eligible to enrol in this subject.

Availability

2nd and 3rd year

Credit Points

12.5

Coordinator

Prof Colin Nettelbeck

Prerequisites

116-007 French I: Cultural Perspectives and 116-008 French I: Language in Context II or equivalent.

Semester

2 (view timetable)

Contact

A 2-hour seminar and a 1-hour tutorial 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

A 25-minute classpaper subsequently written up and equivalent to 1000 words, and a film analysis of 1000 words, and an essay of 2000 words.

Prescribed Texts
  • J Forbes, The Cinema in France after the New Wave. Indiana UP 1994.
  • G Austin, Contemporary French Cinema: An Introduction. NY 1996.
  • S Hayward & G Vincendeau (eds), French Film: Text and Contexts. Routledge 1990.
  • S Hayward, French National Cinema. Routledge 1993.
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