Unit name | Gender and Sexuality in French Film |
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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 |
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:
Successful students will:
1 x 2hr slot
Oral presentation (25%) plus 4000-word essay (75%)
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)