Cinema for French Conversation, 3/e

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An exciting book for incorporating French cinema and culture into a French language course. Each chapter of the book is devoted to a single movie and includes aids for students watching the film, discussing and writing about the film, and understanding the film in a broader cultural context. This best-selling textbook, by author Anne-Christine Rice, continues to define language learning through film.

Features

Included in each chapter, is vocabulary helpful to understanding and discussing the film, structured exercises in understanding the film once it has been viewed—especially for discussion in class—and an accompanying reading for each film designed to provide perspective on the film itself.

New features in the 3rd Edition!
• More cultural, historical and literary information about the film and its story.
• New and additional readings.
• A new section for each film dealing with art.

You may purchase the films on Amazon.com by following the links below
taken from the Table of Contents

Inch’Allah dimanche [NEW]
Jean de Florette
Manon des sources
Ressources humaines [NEW]
Madame Bovary
Marius et Jeannette  
Le Fabuleux Destin d’Amélie Poulain  
L’esquive [NEW]
Ridicule
La Veuve de Saint-Pierre  
Au revoir les enfants
8 femmes [NEW]
Cyrano de Bergerac
Le Hussard sur le toit
Un dimanche à la campagne
La Vie et rien d’autre
Le Dernier métro
Le Dîner de cons

About the Author

Anne-Christine Rice is an instructor in the Department of Romance Languages at Tufts University. She completed her Masters degree and DEA (doctoral coursework) in Angers, France, and holds a CAPES, the French national certification for teaching. She is the author of Cinema for French Conversation, Second Edition, as well as the Cine-Module series. She also serves as advisory editor for Focus Publishing's French text series.

Reviews

Cinema for French Conversation by Anne-Christine Rice is an outstanding text that is unlikely to be equaled anytime soon. This visually attractive, luxurious, 358-page tome is a language text in its own right since it incorporates a great many language-specific activities.... For right now the standard of excellence is measured by our good friends up in Newburyport, Massachusetts.  
            ~ Thomas Conner, St. Norbert College (From NECTFL Review #62 (Spring/Summer)

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