TCF 340 International Cinema
The French Film
Fall 2013
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Date	Topic/Screening	Readings
8/22	Introduction to Course Day for Night (Truffaut, 1973)
8/27	Film Analysis: Narrative Structure	Butler, ch. 2 (21-32); ch. 3 (55-79)
8/29	Film Analysis: Mise-en-Scene My Other Husband (Lautner, 1983) (French title: Attention! Une femme peut en cacher une autre; literally, "Watch out! A wife/woman can conceal an other [woman]")	Butler, ch. 7
9/3	Film Analysis: Cinematographic Properties	Butler, ch. 8
9/5	Film Analysis: Editing & Sound Early French Cinema Lumière Brothers Shorts The Mysterious Retort and The Eclipse (Méliès, 1907) Troubles of a Grass Widower (Linder, 1908) Le Million (Clair, 1931) (Rosh Hashanah)	Butler, chs. 9 (293-313), 10
9/10	Analytical Exercise Due Click here for Exercise illustrations!
9/12	The Avant-Garde: Dada & Surrealism Entr'acte (Clair, 1924; Gorgas VCR 84-27) Un Chien Andalou (Buñuel/Dalí, 1928) Zero for Conduct (Vigo, 1933) Recommended Screening
9/17	Discussion	Hughes, 212-255
9/19	French Cinema Between the Wars I: Sound's Arrival and the Popular Front The Crime of M. Lange (Renoir, 1935) Recommended Screening
9/24	Discussion	Fofi, 172-224
9/26	Bazinian Realism: Jean Renoir The Rules of the Game (Renoir, 1939; Gorgas DVD 2007-34) Recommended Screening
10/1	Discussion	Bazin ("Evolution"), 24-51; ("Pop. Front"), 36-52
10/3	French New Wave I: Alain Resnais Hiroshima, Mon Amour (Resnais, 1959; Gorgas DVD 2010-84)
10/8	Discussion	Monaco ("Resnais"), 34-52
10/10	French New Wave II: François Truffaut The 400 Blows (Truffaut, 1959, Gorgas DVD 2007-34) Recommended Screening	Monaco ("NW"), 13-36, 87-97
10/15	Midterm Exam
10/17	French Modernism: Jean-Luc Godard & Bertolt Brecht Breathless (Godard, 1960)
10/22	Discussion	Brecht, 33-42; Wollen, 79-91; MacCabe, 17-25
10/24	Godard and Feminism Vivre sa Vie (Godard, 1962) Godard on The Dick Cavett Show, Part One (1980)
10/29	Discussion	MacCabe/Mulvey, 78-104
10/30	Last day to drop a course with a grade of "W".
10/31	Fall Break
11/5	New Wave Shorts Les Fiancés du Pont Mac Donald (Varda, 1961) Du coq à l'âne: Des mains et des objets (Bergala, Huet, Varda; 2007) The Girl at the Monceau Bakery (Rohmer, 1963)
11/7	French Feminism, Continued: Agnès Varda Vagabond (Varda, 1986, Gorgas VCR 98-72)
11/12	Discussion	Kuhn, 129-177
11/14	French New Wave III: Éric Rohmer Chloe in the Afternoon (Rohmer, 1972)
11/19	Discussion	Monaco ("NW"), 286-304; Crisp, 67-74
11/21	Godard Since 1968 and Claire Denis Chocolat (Denis, 1989)
11/26	France/tour/détour/deux/enfants - "Mouvement 1: Obscur/Chimie" (Dark/Chemistry) (Godard/Miéville, 1978) Godard on The Dick Cavett Show, Part Two (1980) Recommended Screening
11/28	Thanksgiving Holiday (Chanukah Begins)
12/3	Discussion	Mayne, 33-48; Penley, 32-59
12/5	Course Summary (Bring a Laptop) Student Opinions of Instruction (SOI) Online Course Evaluation Survey Take-Home Essay distributed Amélie (Jeunet, 2001)
12/6	Extra Credit due, 4:45 pm, TCF office (484 Phifer)
12/11	Take-Home Essay Due, Wednesday, 11:59 p.m. Submitted via Blackboard Learn and TurnItIn
12/13	Final Exam, Friday, 8:00-10:30 a.m.

Readings

Jeremy G. Butler, Television: Critical Methods and Applications (New York: Routledge, 2011). Online resources.

Available through the Academic Publishing Service (Supe Store), the Phifer Hall Reading Room and on Blackboard Learn:

In alphabetical order, not the order in which they are assigned.

1. Armes, Roy. French Cinema. NY: Oxford University, 1985.
2. Bazin, André. "The Era of the Popular Front." In Jean Renoir, pp. 36-52. Edited and with an introduction by Francois Truffaut. Translated by W. W. Halsey II and William H. Simon. NY: Simon & Schuster, 1973.
3. Bazin, André. "The Evolution of Film Language." In The New Wave, pp. 24-51. Edited and translated by Peter Graham. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1968.
4. Bazin, André. "LE JOUR SE LÊVE . . . Poetic Realism." In LE JOUR SE LÊVE: A Film by Marcel Carné and Jacques Prévert, pp. 5-12. Translated by Dinah Brooke and Nicola Hayden. NY: Simon and Schuster, 1970.
5. Brecht, Bertolt. "The Modern Theatre is the Epic Theatre." In Brecht on Theatre, pp. 33-42. Edited and translated by John Willett. New York: Hill and Wang, 1964.
6. Bresson, Robert. Notes on Cinematography. Translated by Jonathan Griffin. NY: Urizen, 1977.
7. Crisp, C. G. Eric Rohmer: Realist and Moralist. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1988.
8. Fofi, Goffredo. "The Cinema of the Popular Front in France (1934-38)." In Screen Reader I, pp. 172-224. London: SEFT, 1977.
9. Kuhn, Annette. Women's Pictures: Feminism and Cinema. Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1982.
10. Hughes, Robert. The Shock of the New. NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980.
11. MacCabe, Colin. Godard: Images, Sounds, Politics. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University, 1980. Includes chapter co-written with Laura Mulvey.
12. MacCabe, Colin. Godard: A Portrait of the Artist at Seventy. New York: Faber & Faber, 2003.
13. Mayne, Judith. Claire Denis (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2005), pp. 33-48.
14. Monaco, James. Alain Resnais. NY: Oxford University, 1979.
15. Monaco, James. The New Wave. NY: Oxford University, 1976.
16. Penley, Constance. "Les Enfants de la Patrie." Camera Obscura, 8-9-10, pp. 32-59.
17. Wollen, Peter. "Godard and Counter Cinema: VENT D'EST." In Readings and Writings: Semiotic Counter-Strategies. London: Verso, 1982.

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