Date	Topic	Readings/Screenings
8/18	Introduction to Course
8/23	Film Analysis: Narrative Structure	Butler, ch. 2 (21-32); ch. 3 (55-79) Day for Night (Truffaut, 1973) click for illustrations click for illustrations click for illustrations click for illustrations
8/25	Film Analysis: Mise-en-Scene click for illustrations	Butler, ch. 7 click for illustrations click for illustrations
8/30	Film Analysis: Cinematographic Properties click for illustrations	Butler, ch. 8 click for illustrations 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]")
9/1	Film Analysis: Editing & Sound click for illustrations click for illustrations	Butler, chs. 9 (293-313), 10 click for illustrations In-Class Screenings Early French Cinema click for illustrations click for illustrations Lumière Brothers Shorts click for illustrations The Mysterious Retort (1906) and The Eclipse (Méliès, 1907) click for illustrations Also: watch Le Million (Clair, 1931) this week.
9/6	Analytical Exercise Due	Click here for Exercise illustrations!
9/8	The Avant-Garde: Dada & Surrealism click for illustrations
9/13	Discussion	Hughes, 212-255 Entr'acte (Clair, 1924) click for illustrations Un Chien Andalou (Buñuel/Dalí, 1928) click for illustrations Zero for Conduct (Vigo, 1933) Recommended Screenings
9/15	French Cinema Between the Wars I: Sound's Arrival and the Popular Front click for illustrations click for illustrations
9/20	Discussion	Fofi, 172-224 Le Million (Clair, 1931) The Crime of M. Lange (Renoir, 1935) Recommended Screenings
9/22	Bazinian Realism: Jean Renoir click for illustrations
9/27	Discussion	Bazin ("Evolution"), 24-51; ("Pop. Front"), 36-52 The Rules of the Game (Renoir, 1939) Recommended Screenings
9/29	French New Wave I: Alain Resnais click for illustrations click for illustrations
10/4	Discussion	Monaco ("Resnais"), 34-52 Hiroshima, Mon Amour (Resnais, 1959) click for illustrations
10/6	French New Wave II: François Truffaut click for illustrations click for illustrations	The 400 Blows (Truffaut, 1959) Monaco ("NW"), 13-36, 87-97
10/11	Midterm Exam
10/13	French Modernism: Jean-Luc Godard & Bertolt Brecht click for illustrations
10/18	Discussion click for illustrations	Brecht, 33-42; Wollen, 79-91; MacCabe, 17-25 Breathless (Godard, 1960) click for illustrations
10/20	Godard and the Representation of Women click for illustrations
10/25	Discussion	MacCabe/Mulvey, 78-104 Vivre sa Vie (Godard, 1962) Godard on The Dick Cavett Show, Part One (1980)
10/26	Last day to drop a course with a grade of "W".
10/27	Mid-Semester Study Break
11/1	New Wave Shorts	In-class screening Les Fiancés du Pont Mac Donald (Varda, 1961) click for illustrations Du coq à l'âne: Des mains et des objets (Bergala, Huet, Varda; 2007) click for illustrations The Girl at the Monceau Bakery (Rohmer, 1963) click for illustrations
11/3	Representation of Women, Continued: Agnès Varda click for illustrations click for illustrations
11/8	Discussion Election Day	Kuhn, 129-177 Vagabond (Varda, 1986)click for illustrations
11/10	French New Wave III: Éric Rohmerclick for illustrations
11/15	Discussion	Monaco ("NW"), 286-304; Crisp, 67-74 Chloe in the Afternoon (Rohmer, 1972) click for illustrations
11/17	Godard Since 1968 and Claire Denis click for illustrations click for illustrations
11/22	View Videos on Your Own	France/tour/détour/deux/enfants - "Mouvement 1: Obscur/Chimie" (Dark/Chemistry) (Godard/Miéville, 1978) click for illustrations Godard on The Dick Cavett Show (1980) Recommended Screening
11/24	Thanksgiving Holiday
11/29	Discussion click for illustrations Take-Home Essay Distributed	Mayne, 33-48; Penley, 32-59 Chocolat (Denis, 1989) click for illustrations click for illustrations
12/1	Course Summary (Bring a Laptop/Tablet/Smart Phone) Select one question from Screenpedia or the class lectures to review. Student Opinions of Instruction (SOI) Course Screenings Survey
12/7	Take-Home Essay Due, Wednesday, 11:59 p.m. Submitted via Blackboard Learn and TurnItIn
12/9	Final Exam, Friday, 8:00-10:30 a.m.	Amélie (Jeunet, 2001)

Reading List
(in alphabetical order)

Chapter PDFs are on Blackboard. Jeremy G. Butler, Television: Critical Methods and Applications (New York: Routledge, 2011). Online resources.

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

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. Recommended, not required: 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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