FREN3852

FREN 3852 - Memory in French and Francophone Cinema (3 Cr.) Online may be available

French & Italian (10962) TCLA - College of Liberal Arts

FREN 3852 - Memory in French and Francophone Cinema (3 Cr.) Online may be available

Course description

This course will examine cinema’s privileged relationship with memory. Our itinerary will take us through key French and Francophone films, asking how these works record, construct and deconstruct “individual” and “collective” memories. Topics will include bearing witness to the traumas of war, genocide and colonization; commemorating resistance and fostering emancipation; interventions in identity politics; (re)partitions of rural and urban spaces; and the elusive divide between fiction, documentary and memoir. Students will be expected to master a vocabulary for the formal analysis of film.

prereq: Students should have completed FREN 3016 with a minimum grade of B.

Minimum credits

3

Maximum credits

3

Is this course repeatable?

No

Grading basis

OPT - Student Option

Discussion

Requirements

004276

Credit will not be granted if credit has been received for:

02900

Fulfills the writing intensive requirement?

No

Typically offered term(s)

Periodic Fall & Spring