History of French Filmmaking from its Origins to the New Wave

(4 Credits)

This course offers an introduction to French auteur cinema from three perspectives: the director's artistic signature, film theory and criticism, and the political and cultural history of France. The movements and directors we will be discussing include: Surrealism and the Avant-Garde (Bunuel), Poetic Realism (Renoir, Carné), the New Wave (Godard, Resnais, Truffaut, Varda, Demy).