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French literature and film have always reciprocally inspired one another – as early as 1897, Lumière represented the main characters of Hugo’s Les Misérables. This course will offer students the opportunity to analyze literary representations of women and their film adaptations in terms of intermediality and intertextuality. Adaptations will include: La Princesse de Clèves
The course will be for sustained work on an animation or projection design project, and should be a space for both experimentation, ambition and consistent endeavor. The first half of the semester will be concerned with conceptualizing and framing the world of the animations or projections, by research, drawings, investigation, imagining. The second half will be creating the
This course will explore socio-political issues of contemporary France. Themes will include the end of World War II and the disintegration of the French colonial empire. The period also produced migration waves originating from newly independent, post-colonial territories. The presence of these migrants and their offspring has profoundly transformed
This course will explore socio-political issues of contemporary France. Themes will include the end of World War II and the disintegration of the French colonial empire. The period also produced migration waves originating from newly independent, post-colonial territories. The presence of these migrants and their offspring has profoundly transformed
This course will examine the comic in French theatre, literature, politics, and film in order to answer a deceptively simple question: What makes us laugh? In theoretical readings we will consider whether laughter is a universal, cross-cultural function. Additionally, we will look at special, sub-genres of the comic, such as satire and parody, in order to question the
