FRES15
Gender, Race, and Social Class in French and Francophone Film
Subject code
FRE
Course Number
S15
Department(s)
Instructor(s)
A. Dauge-Roth
Course Long Title
Gender, Race, and Social Class in French and Francophone Film
Description
This course explores representations of gender, race, and class including the intersectionality and historical evolution of these categories of difference. Students acquire analytical tools to better appreciate and contextualize French and Francophone films and look critically at their various aesthetic frameworks. How do classic French cinema, surrealism, avant-garde cinema, the New Wave, and postcolonial cinema question social norms and values? How do French and Francophone films represent personal memory, national history, gender relations, and colonial and postcolonial gazes? How do filmmakers address social change and capture shifting identities within French and Francophone history and cultures? Course and reading materials are in English; films are in the original with English subtitles.
Writing Credit
No writing credit
GEC This Course Belongs To
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Offering Frequency
One-time offering