FRH 414 NEW WAVE FILM, THEN AND NOW

This course will examine the crucial New Wave movement in French cinema, as it is expressed as a historical moment or "school" and as it is conceived in less temporal terms as an attitude toward making and viewing film. The Nouvelle Vague's contribution to filmmaking as writing and as epistemological quest will be explored with reference to earlier filmmakers, and in relation to the parallel Rive Gauche group. Special emphasis will be placed on contemporary French cinema as inheriting the auteur tradition. Films by Bresson, Truffaut, Godard, Rohmer, Varda, Marker, Resnais, Beineix, Besson, Asseyas, Pool, Jeunet.