![]() ![]() Reader - A breath of sea air : Jacques Tati's Les Vacances de M. 'Poetry of the unconscious' : circuits of desire in two films by Germaine Dulac : La Souriante Mme Beudet (1923) and La Coquille et le clergyman (1927) / Sandy Flitterman-Lewis - History and actuality : Abel Gance's Napoléon vu par Abel Gance (1927) / Norman King - Discourse, narrative, and the subject of capital : Marcel L'Herbier's L'Argent (1929) / Richard Abel - 'Let's sing it one more time' : René Clair's Sous les toits de Paris (1930) / Michel Marie - In the name of the father : Marcel Pagnol's 'trilogy' Marius (1931), Fanny (1932), César (1936) / Ginette Vincendeau - The fleeing gaze : Jean Renoir's La Betê humaine (1938) / Michel Lagny - Poetic realism as psychoanalytical and ideological operation : Marcel Carné's Le Jour se lève (1939) / Maureen Turimīeneath the despair, the show goes on : Marcel Carné's Les Enfants du paradis (1943-1945) / Jean-Pierre Jeancolas - Gender politics : Cocteau's Belle is not that Bête : Jean Cocteau's La Belle et la Bête (1946) / Susan Hayward - The sacrament of writing : Robert Bresson's Le Journal d'un curé de campagne (1951) / Keith A. Alistair Fox, Michel Marie, Raphaelle Moine & Hilary Radner, (eds), A Companion to Contemporary French Cinema, Chichester:John Wiley: 2014 (Introduction and browse).Includes bibliographical references (p.See especially a section in the latter on 'Writing a Film Essay' (pp. ![]() AND/OR Timothy Corrigan and Patricia White, The Film Experience (Boston, Bedford, 2004 edition).David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson, Film Art: An Introduction (6th edition, New York, Knopf, 1998).If you have not studied film before, the following texts are also recommended overviews: Phil Powrie (ed.), French Cinema in the 1990s: Continuity and Difference (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1999).'Introduction: Contemporary French Cinema - Continuity and Change in a Global Context,' in Fox, Marie, Moine and Radner (eds.), A Companion to Contemporary French Cinema (Chichester: John Wiley, 2015). There are no core set texts as such for this module, other than the films to be viewed and set articles or chapters each week, but intending students will find the following reading useful: Students are reminded that roughly four hours attendance per week are required for this module, including lecture, seminar, and roughly two hours of screenings.The module will be of particular interest to students who took a French cinema module in their second year but it is open to all students whether or not they have studied film previously. All films for this module will be made available for viewing via the Transnational Resources Centre (as a digitised copy available for streaming on your own devices).'Mary's teaching is among the best I have experienced at Warwick.' Find transnationalism fascinating, like contemporariness aspect, so useful for understanding today's France.' 'Expertise great but also communicates it really well I feel Mary is one of the most approachable tutors. 'What made this module stand out for me was its contemporary content, which we don't often have the opportunity to study.' The pace is very clear and the use of film extracts helps to break up the lecture and solidify and exemplify new ideas and concepts.' 'The course leader's expertise is extremely high, which subsequently produces high-quality and engaging material. Representative student feedback on the module since I began teaching it in 2014/15:.The aesthetics of French cinema will thus be analysed alongside the medium’s mediation of major recent socio-cultural developments. It simultaneously explores a variety of current approaches to the study of French film, placing emphasis on industrial processes as well as critical and reception contexts, notably in relation to the concepts of arthouse and mainstream cinema. It examines cinema’s role in representing and negotiating a range of social issues, from France’s wealth divide to issues of identity politics linked to questions of (trans-/)national, ethnic, gendered and sexual identity or technological, eco-environmental and other social changes. ![]()
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