Notes regarding credits...

Fall 3= 30 hrs of instr
Fall 4/Win 2/Yr 2= 45 hrs of instr

Note: A placement exam will be required when you arrive on site.

Intermediate

This course is designed for students who have completed or tested out of a minimum of two semesters (or three quarters) of college-level French. However, students must take a placement exam to determine the course level into which they will be able to enroll.

Objectives:
- Discover the vast world of cinematographic vocabulary
- Research today's contemporary films that will become the classics of tomorrow
- Decipher masterpieces through the authors' aesthetics: screenplay writing, background/set composition, use of camera movements, as well use of soundtracks and cinematic montages.

Program
FIRST SEMESTER: SPECIFICITY OF CONTEMPORARY CINEMA

1. Situation of French cinematography
- Financing/the film-television duo/producers
- Generations of cinema

2. Notable filmmakers
- Agnès Varda, "Cinevardaphoto" and "Les Glaneurs et la Glaneuse"
- Alain Resnais and his musical comedies
- Jean-Luc Godard and "Notre Musique"
- Jean-Claude Brisseau and "De Bruit et de Fureur"

3. Comedy
- Fanciful comedies: "Toto", "Amélie"
- Moral comedies: "Un air de Famille", "Tanguy"

4. Regions and suburbs
- Guédiguian and Marseille: "Marius et Jeannette", "La Vie est Tranquille"
- The North: Beauvois, the Dardenne brothers, Dumont: "La Promesse", "Rosetta"
- The Suburbs: Kassovitz's "La Haine" and Kechiche's "L'Esquisse"

SECOND SEMESTER: YOUNG FRENCH CINEMA

1. "Beur Cinema"
- History of an immigration: "Vivre au Paradis" (Guerdjou)
- Emergence of a cinema: "Le Thé au Harem Archimède"
- the model run of an actor: Sami Bouajila

2. Women and Filmmakers
- Husbands and Fathers: "Y aura-t-il la Neige à Noel?" (Sandrine Veysset) and "Tout va
Bien, On s'en Va" (Maurieras)
- Women adrift: "En Avoir ou Pas" (Laetitia Masson)
- Women of the FEMIS school: "La Vie ne me Fait pas Peur" (Noémie Lovovsky) and
"Petits Arrangements avec les Morts" (Pascale Ferran)

3. Other Politics
- André Téchiné from "Souvenirs d'en France" to "J'Embrasse pas"
- Jacques Audiard from "Regarde les Hommes Tomber" to "De Battre mon Coeur s'est
Arreté"
- Arnaud Despléchin from "La Vie des Morts" to Rois et Reines"
Conclusion: French cinema and the cultural exception

Class Structure:
- Presentation of a filmmaker
- Situating a film in its historical, social and artistic context
- Reviewing films by means of a questionnaire
- Small group discussion
- Class discussion

Educational Tools:
- Films/excerpts in French or in original format with French subtitles

Grading:
- Film/excerpt analysis
- 1 project
- Class participation