FREN 114 SC: Documenting the French

This course examines how documentary cinema has recorded and reflected upon France’s dramatic social transformations in the 20th century. Through analyses of films by the Lumière brothers, Vigo, Rouquier, Franju, Resnais, Marker, Rouch, Tavernier, Godard, Lanzmann, Depardon, Philibert, and Varda amongst others, the course will stress the diversity and inventiveness of the documentary as an art form. Prerequisite: French 100 or equivalent. Instructor: N. Rachlin. [Media Theory or Media History]