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A05 -
Unraveling French Cinema

This seminar is an introduction to the complexities of French cinema and to the ways in which French filmmakers have focused as much on the question, �What is cinema?� as they have on the story line of their films. We will study the many ways in which French directors �complicate� their films in terms that Hollywood audiences are unprepared to appreciate. We will analyze several cinematic arenas, (poetry, dream, hypnosis and terror) in order to both read a film for plot and also to uncover a �thesis� on the meaning of cinema hidden in the film�s texture. We will screen and discuss excerpts from five major films.

Scholar:

T. Jefferson Kline

Location:

Harvard Hillel

Dates:

10/29/2009, 11/5/2009

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A05 -	Unraveling French Cinema

	This seminar is an introduction to the complexities of French cinema and to the ways in which French filmmakers have focused as much on the question, �What is cinema?� as they have on the story line of their films. We will study the many ways in which French directors �complicate� their films in terms that Hollywood audiences are unprepared to appreciate. We will analyze several cinematic arenas, (poetry, dream, hypnosis and terror) in order to both read a film for plot and also to uncover a �thesis� on the meaning of cinema hidden in the film�s texture. We will screen and discuss excerpts from five major films.

		Scholar:	T. Jefferson Kline
		Location:	Harvard Hillel
		Dates:	10/29/2009, 11/5/2009