FREN 350 - Remembering the French New Wave: French Legacies in Global Cinema

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 21st 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 will be taught in English.

Prerequisites & Notes
This course is cross-referenced with CINE 260.
Prerequisite: FREN 250 or CINE 101.
Enrollment Limit: 25.
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Credits: 3 hours