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'''JCM 312 International Cinema''' is a discussion-oriented course taught by [[User:Jeremy Butler|Jeremy Butler]].

== Course objectives ==

JCM 312 assumes the student understands generally the contours of international cinema history. The course's objective therefore is to investigate in some depth the cinematic work of a particular nation and the historical/theoretical issues pertaining to it. This term our topic will be the French cinema.

The online syllabus ('''Fall 2019'''): [http://bit.ly/j312f19 bit.ly/j312f19]

==Study groups==
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== Online study guides ==
===Chronological order===
#Film Analysis: [[JCM312/Narrative Structure|Narrative Structure]], ''Television''
#Film Analysis: [[JCM312/Mise-en-scene|Mise-en-scene]], ''Television''
#Film Analysis: [[JCM312/Cinematography|Cinematography]], ''Television''
#Film Analysis: [[JCM312/Editing|Editing]], ''Television''
#Film Analysis: [[JCM312/Sound|Sound]], ''Television''
#Film Analysis: [[JCM312/Analytical Exercise (Discussion)|Discussion]] of Analytical Exercise
#Early French Cinema
#The Avant-Garde ([[JCM312/The Avant-Garde (Discussion)|Discussion]])
#French Cinema Between the Wars I: Popular Front [[JCM312/French Cinema Between the Wars I: Popular Front (Discussion)|(Discussion)]]
#Bazinian Realism [[JCM312/Bazinian Realism (Discussion)|(Discussion)]]
#French Cinema Between the Wars II: Poetic Realism (discontinued)
#French New Wave I: Alain Resnais [[JCM312/French New Wave I: Alain Resnais (Discussion)|(Discussion)]]
#French New Wave II: François Truffaut [[JCM312/French New Wave II: François Truffaut (Discussion)|(Discussion)]]
#French New Wave III: Éric Rohmer [[JCM312/French New Wave III: Éric Rohmer (Discussion)|(Discussion)]]
#French Modernism: Jean-Luc Godard & Bertolt Brecht [[JCM312/French Modernism: Jean-Luc Godard & Bertolt Brecht (Discussion)|(Discussion)]]
#Godard and Contemporary Feminism ([[JCM312/Godard and Contemporary Feminism (Discussion)|Discussion]])
#French Feminism, Continued: Agnès Varda ([[JCM312/French Feminism, Continued: Agnès Varda (Lecture)|Lecture]], [[JCM312/French Feminism, Continued: Agnès Varda (Discussion)|Discussion]])
#Claire Denis ([[JCM312/Claire Denis (Discussion)|Discussion]])
#Godard Since 1968 ([[JCM312/Godard Since 1968 (Discussion)|Discussion]])
#Cinema Ascetic: Robert Bresson

===List of lecture notes===
[[:Category:JCM312 Lecture]]

===List of discussion notes===
[[:Category:JCM312 Discussion]]

===Extra credit===
==== Shot Logger ====
Prepare frame grabs for [http://shotlogger.org Shot Logger], using a French film.

More details will be announced later.

== Texts & resources ==

===Books===
#Jeremy Butler, ''Television: Visual Storytelling and Screen Culture''

===Articles and book chapters===

In alphabetical order, not the order in which they are assigned.

#Armes, Roy. French Cinema. NY: Oxford University, 1985.
#Bazin, André. "The Era of the Popular Front." In Jean Renoir, pp. 36-52. Edited and with an introduction by Francois Truffaut. Translated by W. W. Halsey II and William H. Simon. NY: Simon & Schuster, 1973.
#Bazin, André. "The Evolution of Film Language." In The New Wave, pp. 24-51. Edited and translated by Peter Graham. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1968.
#Bazin, André. "LE JOUR SE LÊVE . . . Poetic Realism." In LE JOUR SE LÊVE: A Film by Marcel Carné and Jacques Prévert, pp. 5-12. Translated by Dinah Brooke and Nicola Hayden. NY: Simon and Schuster, 1970.
#Brecht, Bertolt. "The Modern Theatre is the Epic Theatre." In Brecht on Theatre, pp. 33-42. Edited and translated by John Willett. New York: Hill and Wang, 1964.
#Bresson, Robert. Notes on Cinematography. Translated by Jonathan Griffin. NY: Urizen, 1977.
#Crisp, C. G. Eric Rohmer: Realist and Moralist. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1988.
#Fofi, Goffredo. "The Cinema of the Popular Front in France (1934-38)." In Screen Reader I, pp. 172-224. London: SEFT, 1977.
#Kuhn, Annette. Women's Pictures: Feminism and Cinema. Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1982.
#Hughes, Robert. The Shock of the New. NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980.
#MacCabe, Colin. Godard: Images, Sounds, Politics. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University, 1980.
#MacCabe, Colin. Godard: A Portrait of the Artist at Seventy. New York: Faber & Faber, 2003.
#Monaco, James. Alain Resnais. NY: Oxford University, 1979.
#Monaco, James. The New Wave. NY: Oxford University, 1976.
#Penley, Constance. "Les Enfants de la Patrie." Camera Obscura, 8-9-10, pp. 32-59.
#Wollen, Peter. "Godard and Counter Cinema: VENT D'EST." In Readings and Writings: Semiotic Counter-Strategies. London: Verso, 1982.


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