This class will be taught in English. FA4 is for bachelors students, while FAE is for master degree students. This course will provide an understanding of the French New Wave along with the key philosophical, critical, and literary works that informed it. Students will be graded on the following areas: attendance (35%), participation (25%), one presentation (15%) and a final exam (25%). A complete film and reading list will be provided, but core texts include Guy Debord - Society of the Spectacle Jean-Paul Sartre - Essays on Existentialism Jean Baudrillard - Simulation and Simulacra Andre Bazin - What is Cinema I, II Gaston Bachelard - The Poetics of Space Genevieve Selliers - Masculine Singular : French New Wave Cinema Dorota Ostrovska - Reading the French New Wave Films will include: Jean-Luc Godard : Breathless, Masculine / Feminine, Band of Strangers Agnes Varda: Cleo from 5 to 7, Happiness, Lions Love Jacques Demy : Lola, Umbrellas of Cherbourg Alain Resnais: Night and Fog, Hiroshima Mon Amour Chris Marker: La Jette, A Grin Without a Cat Claude Chabrol: La Beau Serge, Les Bonnes Femmes Francois Truffaut: 400 Blows, Shoot the Piano Player, Jules et Jim Jacques Rivett: Julie and Celine Go Boating, Paris Belongs to Us Jean-Pierre Melville: Bob the Gambler, Un Flic, The Red Circle Eric Rohmer: The Collector, My Night at Maude's
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This class will be taught in English. FA4 is for bachelors students, while FAE is for master degree students. This course will provide an understanding of the French New Wave along with the key philosophical, critical, and literary works that informed it. Students will be graded on the following areas: attendance (35%), participation (25%), one presentation (15%) and a final exam (25%). A complete film and reading list will be provided, but core texts include
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