Faces of the Criminal

Undergraduate

This course will examine the history of French film through the prism of its representations of criminality. Assigned films may include works by Marcel Carné, Henri-Georges Clouzot, René Clair, Joseph Losey, Jean Renoir, Louis Malle, Jacques Becker, Jean-Pierre Melville, Alain Resnais, Bertrand Tavernier, Michael Haneke, François Ozon, Bertrand Blier, Agnès Varda, Jean-Luc Godard, Maurice Pialat, Claude Chabrol, Robert Bresson, Luis Buñuel, Gaspard Noé, Alain Guiraudie, and Jacques Audiard.\\u200B