FRNCH-160 History of French Cinema (in English): Labor on Film

This First-Year course offers an overview of major movements of French cinema’s long and significant history. This year’s topic is the representation of labor including films from the Lumière brothers era, post WWI poetic realism, the 1960s New Wave and militant cinema to today’s new realism and parody. The theme of work will familiarize students with French social and political history. Taught in English (films in French with English subtitles). Reading on the theory of film and French cultural history will supplement screenings. The class may include field trips.

Maximum Enrollment

First Year Course (18)

(First Year Course, Social Structural and Institutional Hierarchies, Speaking Intensive.)

Credits

1

Notes

Open to first-year students only.