SEMINAR IN FRENCH CINEMA

Catalog description

(Slashed with FR 53591 )(Repeatable for credit) Topics for this course provide a history of French cinema from the early years of documentary and fantasy film through the 1930s, the Golden Age of French cinema, the French New Wave and contemporary trends in French and Francophone cinema. Students develop analytical and critical skills in "reading" film as an aesthetic work (matters of form, narrative and style) and a cultural artifact (social, economic and political functions).