AN INTRODUCTION Class Presentations Quai des brumes Le

UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO MISSISSAUGA
FRC 393S
FRENCH CINEMA: AN INTRODUCTION
Class Presentations
Dr Claude Evans
Office: Rm NB245
Office hours: M 2-4, F 10-12
Tel.: 905 828 5287
e-mail: [email protected]
Spring 2012
Please note:
Each student must make at least one class presentation about one of the articles listed
here. The presentations should take approximately 15 minutes and can involve
Powerpoint slides and film clips.
The instructor will review the slides ahead of time provided they are sent to her at
least 24 hours before the class presentation. The slides will be posted on the course
webpage
The longer articles (20 pages and more) can be divided between 2 students but the
presentations should be separate.
This assignment is worth 20% of the grade.
Please sign up by e-mail as soon as possible. The dates planned for presentations on
each of the films shown in class are indicated on the Course Page.
Quai des brumes
1. Driskell, Jonathan. "The female metaphysical body in poetic realist film." Studies in
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French Cinema, vol. 8, no 1 (January 2008) 57-73.
Faulkner, Christopher. "Theory and practise of film reviewing in France in the 1930s:
eyes right (Lucien Rebatet and Action Française 1936-1939)." French Cultural
Studies, vol. 3 (1992) 133-155.
Gruber, Helmut. "Jean Gabin: Doomed Worker-Hero of a Doomed France."
International Labor and Working-Class History, vol. 59 (2001) 15-35.
McCann, Ben. "(Under)scoring Poetic Realism: Maurice Jaubert and 1930s French
Cinema.". Studies in French Cinema, vol. 9, no 1 (March 2009) 37-48.
Weiner, Susan. "When a prostitute becomes an orphan: Pierre Mac Orlan's Le Quai
des brumes (1927) in the service of poetic realism." Studies in French Cinema, vol. 6,
no 2 (September 2006) 129-140.
Le Corbeau
6. Green, Naomi. "Mood and Ideology in the Cinema of Vichy France." The French
Review, vol. 59, no 3 (Feb. 1986) 437-445.
7. Grottle Strebel, Elizabeth. "French Cinema, 1940-44, and its Socio-Psychological
Significance: A Preliminary Probe." Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and
Television, vol. 1, no 1 (March 1981) 33-45.
8. Kitchen, Ruth. "Another Side to the Story: Confessions of Guilt in Occupation
Narrative." French Cultural Studies, vol. 22 (3) (August 2011) 207-217
9. Sims, Gregory. "Henri-Georges Clouzot's Le Corbeau (1943): The Work of Art as
Will to Power" MLN 114 (4) (September 1999) 743-779
Les Quatre Cents Coups
10. Anzalone, John. "Heroes and Villains or Truffaut and the Literary Pre/Text." The
French Review, vol. 72, no 1 (Oct. 1998) 48-57.
11. Colville, Georgiana. "Children being filmed by Truffaut." The French Review, vol.
63, no 3 (Feb. 1990), pp. 444-451 and Simeral, Fred. "The Child-Centered Films of
Truffaut." The French Review, vol. 51, no 5 (Apr. 1978) 761-762.
Cléo de 5 à 7
12. Mouton, Janice. "From Feminine Masquerade to Flâneuse: Agnès Varda's Cléo in the
City." Cinema Journal, vol. 40, no 2 (Winter 2001) 3-16.
13. Nelson, Roy Jay. "Reflections in a broken Mirror: Varda's Cléo de 5 à 7." The French
Review, vol. 56, no 5 (Apr. 1983) 735-743.
14. Powrie, Phil. "Heterotopic Spaces and Nomadic Gazes in Varda: From Cléo de 5 à 7
to Les Glaneurs et la glaneuse." L'Esprit créateur, vol. 51 (March 2011) 68-82.
Ascenseur pour l'Échafaud
15. Dambre, Marc. "Ascenseur pour l'échafaud (Elevator to the Gallows, 1957): An
Exclusive interview with Louis Malle (1988)". Transl. By Hugo Frey. South Central
Review, vol. 23 no 2 (Summer 2006) 12-21.
16. Frey, Hugo. "Louis Malle and the 1950s: Ambiguities, Friendships and Legacies."
South Central Review, vol. 23 no 2 (Summer 2006) 22-35.
17. Nicholls, David. "Louis Malle's Ascenseur pour l'échafaud and the presence of the
colonial wars in French cinema." French Cultural Studies, vol. 7 (October 1996) 271282.
18. Vincendeau, Ginette. "France 1945-65 and Hollywood: the Policier as inter-national
text." Screen: the journal of the Society for Education in Film and Television, vol. 33
(Spring 1992) 50-80.
Les Parapluies de Cherbourg
19. Decock, Jean and Agnès Varda. "Entretien avec Agnès Varda sur Jacquot de Nantes."
The French Review, vol. 66, no 6 (May 1993) 947-958.
20. Hill, Rodney. "The New Wave Meets the Tradition of Quality: Jacques Demy's The
Umbrellas of Cherbourg". Cinema Journal, vol. 48 (Fall 2008) 27-50.
21. Lazen, Matthew. "En perme à Nantes": Jacques Demy and the NewWave place".
Studies in French Cinema, vol. 4 no 3 (November 2004) 187-196.
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Diva
22. Lang, Robert. "Carnal Stereophony: a reading of Diva." Screen: the journal of the
Society for Education in Film and Television, vol. 25:3 (1984) 70-77.
23. Powrie, Phil. "Diva: a new psychoanalytical approach." Studies in French Cinema,
vol. 2, no 1 (April 2002) 41-49.
Amélie
24. Durham. Carolyn. "Finding France on Film: Chocolat, Amélie and Le Divorce."
French Cultural Studies, vol. 19 (2) (June 2008) 173-197. (2 students)
25. Bagzan, Nicoleta."Female bodies in Paris: iconic urban femininity and Parisian
journey." Studies in French Cinema, vol. 10, no 2 (June 2010) 95-109.
26. Ezra, Elizabeth. « The Death of an Icon: Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain ».
French Cultural Studies, vol. 15, no 3 (Fall 2004) 301-10.
27. Moore, Rick Clifton Moore. "Ambivalence to Technology in Jeunet's Le Fabuleux
destin d'Amélie Poulain." Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society, vol. 26 (1)
(February 2006) 9-19.
28. Morrissey, Jim. "Paris and voyages of self-discovery in Cléo de 5 à 7 and Le
Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain." Studies in French Cinema, vol. 8, no 2 (June
2008) 99-110.
29. Scatton-Tessier, Michelle. "Le Petisme: flirting with the sordid in Le Fabuleux destin
d'Amélie Poulain." Studies in French Cinema, vol. 4, no 3 (November 2004) 197-208.
30. Vanderschelden, Isabelle. "Jamel Debbouze: a New Popular French Star?" Studies in
French Cinema, vol. 5, no 1 (February 2005) 61-72.
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