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| Unit name |
Gender and Sexuality in French Film |
| Unit code |
FREN30097 |
| Credit points |
20 |
| Level of study |
H/6
|
| Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 1 (weeks 1 - 12)
|
| Unit director |
Dr. Nick Rees-Roberts |
| Open unit status |
Not open |
| Pre-requisites |
None |
| Co-requisites |
None |
| School/department |
Department of French |
| Faculty |
Faculty of Arts |
Description including Unit Aims
This seminar course will examine the expanding body of work on representations of gender and sexuality in French auteur cinema within the larger socio-political context of contemporary France. The aim of the course is to engage with key critical debates around gender representation and spectatorship within feminist and queer film studies, and to situate recent production within the broader historical development of French cinema.
Aims:
- To introduce students to a significant body of knowledge of a complexity appropriate to final year level. The content matter will normally include one or more of the following: literature; social, cultural or political history; linguistics; cultural studies; film, television or other media.
- To facilitate students' engagement with a body of literature, including secondary literature, texts, including in non-print media, primary sources and ideas as a basis for their own analysis and development. Normally many or most of these sources will be in a language other than English and will enhance the development of their linguistic skills.
- To develop further skills of synthesis, analysis and independent research, building on the skills acquired in units at level I.
- To equip students with the skills to undertake postgraduate study in a relevant field.
Intended Learning Outcomes
Successful students will:
- be knowledgable about a significant cultural, historical or linguistic subject related to the language they are studying;
- will have advanced skills in the selection and synthesis of relevant material;
- be able to evaluate and analyse relevant material from a significant body of source materials, usually in a foreign language, at an advanced level;
- be able to respond to questions or problems by presenting their independent judgements in an appropriate style and at an advanced level of complexity;
- be able to transfer these skills to other working environments, including postgraduate study.
Teaching Information
1 x 2hr slot
Assessment Information
Oral presentation (25%) plus 4000-word essay (75%)
Reading and References
Core Films (in order of coverage)
J’ai pas sommeil (Claire Denis, 1994)
Wild Side (Sébastien Lifshitz, 2004)
Drôle de Félix (Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau, 2000)
Les Amants criminels (François Ozon, 1998)
Gouttes d’eau sur pierre brûlante (François Ozon, 1999)
Irréversible (Gaspard Noé, 2002)
Romance (Catherine Breillat, 1999)
Ma Mère (Christophe Honoré, 2004)
Secondary Films
Trouble Every Day (Claire Denis, 2001)
5x2 (François Ozon, 2004)
Seul contre tous (Gaspard Noé, 1998)
Intimacy (Patrice Chéreau, 2001)
Baise-moi (Virginie Despentes and Coralie Trinh Thi, 2000)
Sex is comedy (Catherine Breillat, 2002)
La Pianiste (Michael Haneke, 2001)
