The Chic Revolution: French Women, Fashion, and Cinema

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From Joan of Arc to Coco Chanel, this course explores the creation of the ?French woman? ? a symbol of elegance, intellect, sensuality, and resistance. Through cinema, fashion, and art, students will examine how France has continuously used the feminine figure to represent its cultural values, aesthetics, and contradictions. The class interrogates stereotypes of ?the French woman? ? the muse, the Parisienne, the intellectual, the rebel ? and analyzes how modern fashion advertising both perpetuates and subverts these myths.