History of French Filmmaking from its Origins to the New Wave (in English)

(4 Credits)

"This course is an introduction to the history of French cinema from its origins to the New Wave through the lens of art and French civilization (history, literature, class, gender, ethnicity). The movements and directors we will be studying include : early cinema (Lumière brothers, Méliès), Surrealism and the Avant-Garde (Bunuel, Dreyer), Poetic Realism (Renoir, Carné), the « New Wave » (Godard, Truffaut, Varda, Demy). "