Film & Media Studies 327 - Toward the New Wave

Fall
2014
01
4.00
Jay Caplan
TTH 02:30PM-03:50PM
Amherst College
FAMS-327-01-1415F
CHAP 119
jlcaplan@amherst.edu
FREN-365-01,FAMS-327-01

(Offered as FREN  365 and FAMS 327.)  The class will study films from the French New Wave (1959-63), as well as earlier French films that influenced many New Wave directors.  These films will include:  Jean-Luc Godard's A bout de souffle, Vivre sa vie, and Le Mépris; Alain Resnais' Hiroshima Mon Amour and L'annee dernière à Marienbad; Les 400 Coups by François Truffaut and Agnès Varda's  Cléo de 5 à 7, as well as Zero de conduite and L'Atalante by Jean Vigo; Boudu sauvé des eaux, la Grande Illusion and La Règle du jeu by Jean Renoir; Jean-Pierre Melville's Bob le flambeur; and Robert Bresson's Un Condamné à mort s'est echappé.  This course will also provide basic training in the analysis of films.  Conducted in French.


Requisite:  One of the following--FREN 207, 208, 311, or equivalent.  Fall semester.  Professor Caplan.

Permission is required for interchange registration during the add/drop period only.
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