Fall 2024 French GU4028 section AU1

French Film Aesthetics

Call Number 21341
Day & Time
Location
W 6:00pm-9:00pm
OTHR OTHER
Day & Time
Location
R 12:10pm-2:00pm
OTHR OTHER
Points 0
Grading Mode Ungraded
Approvals Required None
Instructor Tadas Bugnevicius
Type SEMINAR
Method of Instruction In-Person
Course Description

The seminar prioritizes a particular branch of French-language film theory and criticism that broadly deals with aesthetics, at the expense of reception and apparatus theories. We follow its history from the silent film-era writings of Germaine Dulac and Jean Epstein to the intersection of film aesthetics and French theory in the work of Barthes, Deleuze, Lyotard, and Rancière, to the most recent inquiries into such notions as montage, découpage, and mise en scène (Aumont, Barnard, Kessler). Weekly films will accompany the readings in order to put pressure on theory, but also to help dissipate its excessive maleness. Because French film aesthetics has been influential around the world and—vice versa—because world cinema has been crucial for the development of French film aesthetics, we will also see American, Italian, Soviet, Japanese, Iranian, Malian, and Taiwanese films, in addition to French films.

All films will be presented with English subtitles. There are no prerequisites for the course, but students wanting to enroll must be committed to attending the Tuesday night 6–9pm screenings, in addition to the 12:10–2pm seminars on Wednesdays.

Web Site Vergil
Department Auditing
Enrollment 3 students (3 max) as of 5:05PM Sunday, December 8, 2024
Status Full
Subject French
Number GU4028
Section AU1
Division Interfaculty
Open To Audit Program
Section key 20243FREN4028WAU1