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UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO MISSISSAUGA
FRE 396/397S
FILMS OF THE FRANCOPHONE WORLD
RESEARCH PAPER, FILMOGRAPHY AND BIBLIOGRAPHY
C. Evans
Spring 2009
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This assignment is worth 40% of the final grade. Penalty for lateness is 2% per day.
Printed copy of the paper due Wednesday April 1, 2009 in class. Paper must also be
sent by e-mail to [email protected] before midnight on Wednesday April 1.
IMPORTANT REMINDERS
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It is to the students’ advantage to start their research early, i. e. at the latest in
February, and to consult with the instructor along the way. Research should be
mostly library based. There will be a penalty of 50% for papers based only on web
sources.
For presentation of the paper, bibliography and filmography MLA style should be
followed.
Grading will take into account the following:
Thoroughness of research
Knowledge of topic. The paper should reflect what was learned in
the course.
Clarity of thought
Organisation of argument
Style, including spelling and grammar
Plagiarism – for instance presenting someone else’s work as one’s own or/and
not acknowledging sources - and submitting the same paper in more than one
course are serious academic offences.
Write between 7 and 8 pages - space between lines 1.5, i. e. between 2500 and 3500 words not including bibliography on the following topic:
Postcolonialism in Francophone Cinema
Students are advised to consider various angles of the question – for instance the
glorification of the French colonial past and the questioning of the ethics of colonialism
by both French and African film directors.
FILMOGRAPHY AND BIBLIOGRAPHY
NB : This list in only indicative. Students are encouraged to look for other or additional
sources.
FILMS
Chocolat (1988) by Claire Denis.
Faat-Kine (2000) by Sembène Ousmane.
Fort Saganne (1983) by Alain Corneau.
Inch’Allah Dimanche (2001) by Yasmina Benguigui.
Indochine (1991) by Régis Wargnier.
La Noire de../Black Girl (1966) by Sembène Ousmane.
Les Roseaux sauvages (1993) by André Téchiné.
Outremer (1989) by Brigitte Roüan.
Xala (1975) by Sembène Ousmane.
BOOKS AND ARTICLES
Blanchard, Pascal, Nicolas Bacel et Sandrine Lemaire éds. La fracture coloniale. La société
française au prisme de l’héritage colonial. Paris : La Découverte, 2006.
Durham, Carolyn A. “Strategies of subversion in colonial nostalgia film: militarism and
marriage in Brigitte Roüan’s Outremer”. Vol.1 no. 2 (2001): 89-97.
Eades, Caroline. Le cinéma post-colonial français. Paris : Éditions du Cerf, Condé-surNoireau : Éditions Corlet, 2006.
Langford, Rachel. “Black and White in Black and White: Identity and Cinematography in
Ousmane Sembène’s La Noire de../Black Girl (1966)”. Studies in French Cinema. Vol. 1
no. 1 (2001): 13-21.
--- ---. “Locating Colonization and Globalisation in Francophone African Film and
Literature: Spatial relations in “Borom Saret” (1963), “La Noire de..” (1965) and “Cinema””
(1997). French Cultural Studies 16, no. 1 (February 2005): 91-104.
Manceron, Gilles. Marianne et les colonies. Une introduction à l’histoire coloniale de la
France. Paris : La Découverte, 2003.
Ravi, Srilata. “Women, Family and Empire-building: Régis Wargnier’s Indochine”. Studies
in French Cinema. Vol. 2 no. 2 (2002): 74-82.
Rollet, Brigitte. “Identity and Alterity in Indochine”. French Cinema in the 1990s.
Continuity and Difference. Phil Powrie ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 199. 37-46.
Sanpat-Patel, Niti. Post-colonial Masquerades: Culture and Politics in Literature, Film,
Video and Photography. New York: Garland, 2001.
Sherzer, Dina ed. Cinema, Colonialism, Postcolonialism: Perspectives from the French
and Francophone World. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1996.
Stovall, Tyler. “French civilization and its discontents: nationalism, colonialism, race”.
Journal of modern history 78 no. 2 (June 2006): 503-505.