GSS151
Gender, Race, and Social Class in French and Francophone Film
Subject code
GSS
Course Number
151
Department(s)
Instructor(s)
M. Rice-DeFosse
Course Long Title
Gender, Race, and Social Class in French and Francophone Film
Cross Listed Courses
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.
Modes of Inquiry
Analysis and Critique [AC], Historical and Social Inquiry [HS]
Writing Credit
No writing credit
INDS Program Relationship
IDGS - GSS Program
GEC This Course Belongs To
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Offering Frequency
Normally offered every year