French Cinema: The Student's Book

French Cinema: The Student’s Book (Apprentissage du cinema francais - English Edition)

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Description

An introduction to French cinema, in English, for American college students.  Includes the history of the origins of French film, an explanation of how to analyze a film, a lexicon of French cinema terms, and an analysis of 17 major masterpieces of French filmmaking. A parallel English version of this text is also available, so the same course can be taught to students of French culture as well as students of French language.

Features

Entirely in English, and fits the course that is being developed at the college level.  Has a companion book in French.
Has a complete scope of French film history, and focuses on modern French film.

Market

For senior or graduate level courses in French film, taught in English, using an historical approach that covers the full history of French film by focusing on key directors and seventeen films. A companion volume is in English, so courses can contain a mix of students taking the course for language or French civilization credit.

About the Author

Alan J. Singerman (A.B. Ohio University 1964, M.A., Ph.D. Indiana University 1966, 1970), Professor of French, has taught French language, literature, civilization, and film at Davidson since 1982. In addition, he regularly teaches a course in semiotics in the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies. He has studied in Paris, Strasbourg, Freiburg ( Germany), and Montpellier, where he received a Masters degree in film studies in 1985. He has lived ten years in France, directing study abroad programs in Pau, Rennes, and Montpellier before setting up and directing Davidson’s new program in Paris and Tours during the 1995-96 year. His scholarly interests focus on the 18th-century French novel and French cinema. His publications include a monograph on the novels of the Abbé Prévost, L’Abbé Prévost: l’amour et la morale (Geneva: Droz, 1987), a critical edition of Prévost’s 1741 novel, Histoire d’une Grecque moderne (Paris: Flammarion, 1990), an edition of articles on language and culture, Toward A New Integration of Language and Culture (Northeast Conference Reports, 1988), and an edition of guidelines for measuring competence in French culture, as well as articles on French literature and film.