Apprentissage du cinema francais: Livre de l'etudiant

Description

Apprentissage du cinema francais is an introduction to French cinema, in French, for American college students. This text 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.

Alan J. Singerman (Ph.D. Indiana University), is Professor of French (retired 2007), taught French language, literature, civilization, and film at Davidson since 1982. He studied in Paris, Strasbourg, Freiburg (Germany), and Montpellier, where he received a Masters degree in film studies in 1985. He lived ten years in France, directing study abroad programs in Pau, Rennes, and Montpellier. His publications focus on the 18th-century French novel and French cinema.

Ce texte est remarquable pour plusieurs raisons: l'auteur nous offre toute son experience dans la critique et l'enseignement du cinema francais; de plus il met a notre disposition une amplitude de references et de citations directes, et enfin il invite l'etudiant/e a devenir a son tour critique et analyste de cette selection impeccable de films classiques indispensables pour une vraie comprehension de l'histoire du cinema francais. -- Rebecca Pauly, West Chester University (PA)