Image from Jean-Luc Goddard's Vivre sa vie: Film en douze tableaux, which depicts Nana (Anna Karina) as she gradually descends into prostitution. (Courtesy of Ian E. Hill on Flickr. License: CC BY-NC.)
Instructor(s)
Catherine Clark
MIT Course Number
21G.341
As Taught In
Spring 2014
Level
Undergraduate
Course Description
Course Features
Educator Features
Course Description
This course covers issues in contemporary French society as expressed through movies made in the 2000s. Topics include France's national self-image, the women's movement, sexuality and gender, family life and class structure, post-colonialism and immigration, and American cultural imperialism. Films by Lelouch, Audiard, Doillon, Denis, Klapisch, Resnais, Rouan, Balasko, Collard, Dridi, Kassovitz, and others. Readings from French periodicals. Films shown with English subtitles. Taught in French.