This course covers issues in contemporary French society as expressed through movies …
This course covers issues in contemporary French society as expressed through movies made in the 2000s. Topics include France’s national self-image, the women’s movement, sexuality and gender, family life and class structure, post-colonialism and immigration, and American cultural imperialism. Films by Lelouch, Audiard, Doillon, Denis, Klapisch, Resnais, Rouan, Balasko, Collard, Dridi, Kassovitz, and others. Readings from French periodicals. Films shown with English subtitles. Taught in French.
No longer considered ‘side’ issues within eighteenth and nineteenth-century studies, slavery, ‘race’, …
No longer considered ‘side’ issues within eighteenth and nineteenth-century studies, slavery, ‘race’, abolition and emancipation are now understood to occupy a central place, not only within the period’s history, but within its literature, philosophy and the concerns of canonical and less well-known writers. The course moves forward to the present day to consider how slavery persists as a central concern within world literature.
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