Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 19:03:00 +0000
From: Ruth Marler <ruth-AT-lamerton.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Nouvelle Vague bits of European Cinema course for Andrew


In message <36D807C4.6D541F8C-AT-i-manila.com.ph>, Andrew Albert J. Ty
<andrewty-AT-i-manila.com.ph> writes
>Hello Ruth,
>
>Would you mind going into detail about this module, particularly the French New
>Wave component (what films you will be watching, what your readings are, etc.)? 
>I
>am just totally crazy about the French New Wave, and since the films are rather
>hard to find here, I'm curious to hear anything about it, especially in an 
>academic
>setting.

Right - here goes...

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In week 6 
we have a lecture: French Cinema.  Mentors of the New Wave      
         Jean Renoir & Jean-Pierre Melville

we will view clips from:

La Grande Illusion (1937) Renoir
La Regle de Jeu (1939) Renoir
French Can-Can 1955 Renoir
Bob le Flambeur 1955 Melville
L'Armee des Ombres 1969 Melville
Le Samourai 1967 Melville

we will have a seminar on:
Styles of Production - Independence: Auteurship or "potlatch"
(Durgnant)?

Our reading includes 
Tutor's Fact Sheet
Kolker "The Altering Eye" pp 39-43
Nuguiera & Truchaud "A Samourai in  Paris"
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In week 7
lecture: The French Nouvelle Vague - An Introduction

clips:

Le Beau Serge 1958 Claude Chabrol
Les Bonnes Femmes 1960, Chabrol
Les Quatre Cents Coup 1959 Francois Truffaut
Jules et Jim 1961 Truffaut
a Bout de Souffle Jean-Luc Godard
Une Femme est une Femme 1961 Godard
Les Carabinieres 1963 Godard
weekend 1967 Godard

seminar: Hollywood and the Auteur theory

reading:
Tutor's fact sheet
Kolker "The Altering Eye" pp 152-159
Durgnat: Introduction to Nouvelle Vague
Truffaut: A Certain Tendency...

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Hope this is of some help.

-- 
Ruth Marler in Hampton, Middlesex, UK
ruth-AT-lamerton.demon.co.uk

Looking for surname WIDDOWS anywhere, anytime for One Name Study
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