Brochure - English translations of course offerings

Analysis of the Film Noir
François Niney
The Film Noir is a style rather than a genre. What are its thematic, narrative, and
aesthetic characteristics? Why does it appear at the end of the Second World War
and disappear at the turn of the 1960s? To what extent does it stand the test of
time?
The Indian Musical Films
Charles Tesson
We will observe the evolution of the Indian musical film, from yesterday to today,
from the golden age of the 1950s to contemporary Bollywood, starting with scenes
of song and dance. A typology of these different scenes will allow for a study of the
function and stakes of these sung and danced moments.
Hollywood and the Studio System
Dominique Trocnet
This course will analyze the structure of Hollywood studios in both a historical and
economic perspective. We will thus see the economic strategies put into place by
Hollywood studios, from their creation until today. We will address a variety of
notions: the vertical integration and organization of studios, the marketing of
demand, the unions, the decline of the studio, the reign of conglomerates and
Hollywood today. We will address the implications and the ideological stakes of
such notions.
V4L21 – Cinema Electives – The Cinema of Agnès Varda
Christa Blümlinger
Starting with La Pointe-­‐Courte (1954), Agnès Varda’s first film, precursor of the
New Wave, we will analyze a certain number of particularities and aesthetic issues:
questions of narrative structure, the relations between documentary and fiction,
photography and cinema, movement and stasis, theatricality and realism, black and
white tonality and light, and, in short, figurative action. Next, this film will allow us
to put into perspective the filmmaker’s oeuvre, and we will then examine the
following: the artificiality of narrative, repetitive patterns, the capacity to change
image media (photography, cinema, installation), in order to formulate reflections
upon it.
Film Festivals
Mathieu Chéreau
By studying practical cases, this course presents the ways in which film festivals
function. We will examine the definition of their proposals (choice of positioning,
relations with the local political culture, film programming), their organization
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