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Contemporary French Film and Social Issues
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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.

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Arts and Humanities
Languages
Literature
Social Science
Sociology
Visual Arts
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider Set:
MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Clark, Catherine
Date Added:
02/01/2014
Slavery, 'Race', and Literature Syllabus
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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.

Subject:
History
Literature
World History
Material Type:
Syllabus
Author:
Alliance for Learning in World History
Date Added:
05/11/2024