CINE 350 - Framing French Non-Fiction Film

3HU, CD, WR
Second Semester. This course addresses “documentary” and “ethnographic” trajectories in French cinema, from the invention of the Lumière cinématographe in 1896 to digital filmmaking at the beginning of the 21 ^st century. We will investigate the structures, techniques, and ideologies that identify these practices as non-fictional, and eventually uncover their poeticity and artifice, particularly in narrative films which play with these forms and test the limits of their claims to truth. Filmmakers to be studied will include Vigo, Grémillon, Ophuls, Rouch, Resnais, Marker, and Varda. This course is cross-referenced with FREN 350.

Prerequisites & Notes
Enrollment Limit: 25.
Ms. An

Credits: 3 hours