Spring 2016

European Film

Formerly listed as: FREN-61

Faculty

Jay L. Caplan (Section 01)

Description

(Offered as FAMS 321 and FREN 361) A study of some of the greatest French New Wave (1959-1963) films, as well as earlier French films that influenced the New Wave. From the New Wave we shall view Truffaut’s The 400 Blows; Godard’s Breathless, My Life to Live, and Contempt; Hiroshima mon amour and Last Year at Marienbad by Resnais. We shall also study Zero for Conduct (1933) and L’Atalante (1934) by Jean Vigo; Boudu Saved From the Waters (1932) Grand Illusion (1937), and The Rules of the Game (1939) by Jean Renoir; Jean-Pierre Melville’s Bob le Flambeur (1956) and A Man Escaped (1956) by Robert Bresson. No previous training in film analysis is required. Conducted in English.

Spring semester. Professor Caplan.

FAMS 321 - L/D

Section 01
Tu 02:30 PM - 03:50 PM CHAP 210
Th 02:30 PM - 03:50 PM CHAP 210

Offerings

2024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Spring 2008, Spring 2013, Spring 2016