Contemporary French Cinema and Society

Catalog description

This course examines the relationship between cinema and contemporary society in France. It studies film as a specific art form, aesthetically, while analyzing it also in sociological terms, that is, in its relation to society, politics and culture in general. The course begins with New Wave (1960's) and traces French cinema to the present, with particular emphasis placed on the new generation of filmmakers of the 1990's. While introducing students to the latest developments in French society and cinema, the course also to improve students' analytical and communicative skills in French. This course it taught entirely in French.