Studies in Film, Media, and Visual Culture (305-0-20)
Instructors
Scott Durham
8474914660
1860 S. Campus Drive, Crowe Hall #2-141
Meeting Info
Kresge Centennial Hall 2-335: Tues, Thurs 11:00AM - 12:20PM
Overview of class
French Film
Description: This course will consider developments in French and Francophone cinema since the Second World War, with a particular emphasis on the works of directors associated or in dialogue with the "New Wave." We will examine the reinvention of cinematic form by these filmmakers, but we will also explore how such formal innovations may be understood as attempts to respond to the historical events and social processes that transformed French culture in that period, most notably the traumas of the Second World War, the emergence of consumer culture, and the processes of decolonization and globalization. Among the directors whose works will be discussed are Jean Renoir, Agnès Varda, Robert Bresson, Jean-Luc Godard, Jacques Tati, Luis Buñuel, Alain Resnais, Chris Marker, Claire Denis and Djibril Diop Mambéty.
Class Attributes
Literature and Arts Foundational Discipline
Literature & Fine Arts Distro Area