21G.052 | Spring 2015 | Undergraduate

French Film Classics

Calendar

WEEK # TOPICS KEY DATES
1 Introduction  
2 Cinema, the Seventh Art? Weekly Response due
3

The Avant-garde

Special Guest: Prof. Sarah Keller

Weekly Response due
4 1930s, Realism and the Popular Front Weekly response due
5 Occupation & Liberation Weekly response due
6 Is France where the movies go to become classic?

MIT WGS Screening of Tomboy, Céline Sciamma, 2011

Weekly Response due

7

A Hexagon-shaped World?

Special Guest: Prof. James Cahill

Weekly Response due
8 Classic French Stars: Brigitte Bardot Weekly Response due
9

The New Wave

Special Guest: Prof. Brian Jacobson

Weekly Response due
10 1970s Sex and Sectarianism Weekly Response due
11 The “Cult” Classic I: The Cinéma du Look Weekly Response due
12 The “Cult” Classic II: La Haine

Papers due

Weekly Response due

13 What is “Classic” Today?: The Popular  
14 What is “Classic” Today?: The Art House Course Evaluations

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