FRENCH 87N: The New Wave: How The French Reinvented Cinema
Focus on the French New Wave's cinematic revolution of 1959-1962. In a few years, the Nouvelle Vague delivered landmark works such as Truffaut's 400 Blows, Godard's Breathless, Chabro's Le Beau Serge or Resnais' Hiroshima mon amour, and changed forever the way we make and think about movies. Why did these films look so radically fresh? What do they say about France's youth culture in the early 60s? How is the author's theory behind them still influencing us today? Focus is on cultural history, aesthetic analysis, interpretation of narrative, sound and visual forms. Taught in English.
Terms: Spr
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Units: 3-4
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UG Reqs: WAY-A-II
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors:
Alduy, C. (PI)
FRENCH 120: Coffee and Cigarettes: The Making of French Intellectual Culture
Examines a quintessential French figure "l'intellectuel" from a long-term historical perspective. We will observe how this figure was shaped over time by such other cultural types as the writer, the artist, the historian, the philosopher, and the moralist. Proceeding in counter-chronological order, from the late 20th to the 16th century, we will read a collection of classic French works. As this course is a gateway for French studies, special emphasis will be placed on oral proficiency. Taught in French; readings in French.
Terms: Spr
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Units: 4-5
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UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors:
Kassabova, B. (PI)
FRENCH 129: Camus
¿The Don Draper of Existentialism¿ for Adam Gopnik, ¿the ideal husband of contemporary letters¿ for Susan Sontag, and ¿the admirable conjunction of a man, of an action, and of a work¿ for Sartre, Camus embodies the very French figure of the ¿intellectuel engagé,¿ or public intellectual. From his birth in 1913 into a poor family in Algeria to Stockholm where he received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1957, from the cafes of Saint Germain-des-Prés to his predilection for Provence, Camus captured the quest for universalism, for the politics of justice and beauty, and engaged in the great ethical battles of his time, from Communism to the use of the death penalty for Nazi collaborators, to colonialism and the Algerian war (and his silence over the war).
Terms: Spr
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Units: 4-5
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors:
Ulloa, M. (PI)
FRENCH 133: Literature and Society in Africa and the Caribbean (AFRICAAM 133, JEWISHST 143)
This course aims to equip students with an understanding of the cultural, political and literary aspects at play in the literatures of Francophone Africa and the Caribbean. Our primary readings will be Francophone novels and poetry, though we will also read some theoretical texts, as well as excerpts of Francophone theater. The assigned readings will expose students to literature from diverse French-speaking regions of the African/Caribbean world. This course will also serve as a "literary toolbox," with the intention of facilitating an understanding of literary forms, terms and practices. Students can expect to work on their production of written and spoken French (in addition to reading comprehension) both in and outside of class. Required readings include: Aimé Césaire, "Cahier d'un retour au pays natal," Albert Memmi, "La Statue de Sel," Kaouther Adimi, "L'envers des autres", Maryse Condé, "La Vie sans fards". Movies include "Goodbye Morocco", "Aya de Yopougon", "Rome plutôt sue Vous". Taught in French. Prerequisite:
FRENLANG 124 or consent of instructor.
Terms: Spr
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Units: 4
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UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors:
Ulloa, M. (PI)
FRENCH 145B: The African Atlantic (AFRICAAM 148, AFRICAST 145B, COMPLIT 145B, COMPLIT 345B, CSRE 145B, FRENCH 345B)
This course explores the central place Africa holds in prose writing emerging during early and modern periods of globalization across the Atlantic, including the middle passage, exploration and colonialism, black internationalism, decolonization, immigration, and diasporic return. We will begin with Equiano's Interesting Narrative (1789), a touchstone for the Atlantic prose tradition, and study how writers crossing the Atlantic have continued to depict Africa in later centuries: to dramatize scenes of departure and arrival in stories of self-making or new citizenship, to evoke histories of racial unity or examine psychic and social fragmentation, to imagine new national communities or question their norms and borders. Our readings will be selected from English, French, Portuguese and Spanish-language traditions. And we will pay close attention to genres of prose fiction (Conrad, Condé, Olinto), epic and prose poetry (Césaire, Walcott), theoretical reflection (Gilroy, Glissant, Mudimbe, Benitez-Rojo), and literary autobiography (Barack Obama, Saidiya Hartman).
Terms: Spr
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Units: 3-5
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UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-A-II, WAY-ED
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors:
Ikoku, A. (PI)
FRENCH 168: Imagining the Oceans (COMPLIT 168, ENGLISH 168)
How has Western culture constructed the world's oceans since the beginning of global ocean exploration? How have imaginative visions of the ocean been shaped by marine science, technology, exploration, commerce and leisure? Authors read might include Cook, Equiano, and Steinbeck; Defoe, Verne, Stevenson, Conrad, Woolf and Hemingway; Coleridge, Baudelaire, Moore, Bishop and Walcott. Films by Painlevé and Bigelow. Seminar co-ordinated with a spring 2015 Cantor Arts Center public exhibition. Visits to Cantor; other possible field trips include Hopkins Marine Station and SF Maritime Historical Park.
Terms: Spr
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Units: 5
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UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II, WAY-ED
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Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)
Instructors:
Cohen, M. (PI)
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Yang, R. (TA)
FRENCH 199: Individual Work
Restricted to French majors with consent of department. Normally limited to 4-unit credit toward the major. May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
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Units: 1-12
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Repeatable for credit
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors:
Alduy, C. (PI)
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Apostolides, J. (PI)
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Bertrand, M. (PI)
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Dupuy, J. (PI)
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Alduy, C. (PI)
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Apostolides, J. (PI)
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Bertrand, M. (PI)
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Dupuy, J. (PI)
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Edelstein, D. (PI)
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Galvez, M. (PI)
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Gumbrecht, H. (PI)
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Harrison, R. (PI)
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Landy, J. (PI)
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Lummus, D. (PI)
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Mudimbe-Boyi, E. (PI)
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Serres, M. (PI)
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Springer, C. (PI)
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Ulloa, M. (PI)
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Wittman, L. (PI)
FRENCH 204: Revolutions in Prose: The 19th-Century French Novel
The French Revolution was not just a haunting memory in nineteenth-century France: it was the decisive structure around which French politics, but also French culture and the arts more generally, were centered. As some historians have argued, the French Revolution might not even have really "ended" until 1880. In this course, we will examine both literary representations of the French Revolution, as well as the literary analyses of a society constantly dealing with the fears (or hopes) of a new Revolution. Primary readings by Stendhal, Balzac, Flaubert, Zola. Taught in French.
Terms: Spr
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Units: 3-5
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UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors:
Kassabova, B. (PI)
FRENCH 205: Songs of Love and War: Gender, Crusade, Politics (FEMGEN 205)
Analysis of medieval love, satirical and Crusade lyrics of the trouabdours. Study of deictic address, corporeal subjectivity, the female voice, love debates, and the body as a figure of political conflict. Course readings include medieval treatises on lyric and modern translations of the troubadour tradition. Works by Ovid, Bernart de Ventadorn, Bertran de Born, La Comtessa de Dia, Thibaut de Champagne, Raimon Vidal, Dante, and Pound. Taught in English. Course includes a lab component for creation of multi-media translation projects: trobar. stanford.edu.
Terms: Spr
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Units: 3-5
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UG Reqs: GER:EC-Gender, WAY-A-II, WAY-ED
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors:
Galvez, M. (PI)
FRENCH 209: Famous French Figures: Celebrity and the Making of French Identity (HISTORY 235G, HISTORY 335G)
How do we think historically about something as fleeting as fame? In this seminar we¿ll engage with the biographies of eight famous French figures, exploring how each of these celebrated lives influenced popular perceptions of what it has meant to be French over the past two centuries. Questions we will ask include: How and why are public figures remembered and memorialized differently at different times and in different places? Who does and does not qualify for the role of French celebrity, and why? What work must biographers do to frame something as complex as a human life into a coherent narrative? What is gained and lost in approaching a given era through a close examination of one individual? Most central to this course: How do people create and contest their cultural and national identities through the collective celebration of particular individuals? We will study the lives and times of three men and five women: Marie Antoinette, Napoleon Bonaparte, Edouard Manet, Sarah Bernhardt, Josephine Baker, Coco Chanel, Albert Camus, and Francoise Sagan.
Terms: Spr
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Units: 3-5
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors:
Braude, M. (PI)
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