FREN 5584/8584 Regards croisés
Books
available at Student Bookstore on the Corner
Conklin, Alice, Sarah Fishman and Robert Zaretsky. France and its Empire Since 1870. New York: Oxford, 2010. ISBN 978-0-19-973518-1
Girardet, Raoul. L’idée coloniale en France de 1871 à 1962. Paris: La Table Ronde, 1972. JV1811.G53 (édition poche: Hachette Littératures, ISBN 2012792502)
Césaire, Aimé. Discours sur le colonialisme. Paris: Présence Africaine, 1955. (édition Poche, Présence Africaine, 2001, ISBN 2708705318)
(optional) Ruscio, Alain. Le Credo de l’homme blanc. Paris: Editions Complexe, 2002. ISBN 2-87027-947-7
Articles and other documents
available through UVA Collab
Les grands dossiers de l’illustration: les expositions universelles (Paris: SEFAG/L’illustration, 1987): 101-191.
Bhabha, The Location of Culture.
Bazin, "Ontologie de l'image photographique." in Qu'est-ce que le cinéma? (Paris: Editions du Cerf, 1975) 9-17.
La loi du 23 février: loi / historique / débats parlementaires
"L'empire et ses mythes," "L'organisation de la propagande," "Jeux et jouets," "Les expositions coloniales," in Images et colonies: Iconographie et propagande coloniale sur l'Afrique française de 1880 à 1962 (Paris: BDIC, 1993). 98-110, 113-139.
Marc Ferro, "Le film, contre-analyse de la société?" in Cinéma et histoire (Paris: Gallimard, 1993): 31-62.
Frantz Fanon (1925-1961). “Chapitre 1 : Le noir et le langage” (pp. 13-32), “Chapitre 5 : L’expérience vécue du noir” (pp. 88-114). Peau noire, masques blancs. Paris: Le Seuil, 1952.
David Slavin, “Heart of Darkness, Heart of Light: The Civilizing Mission in L’Atlantide.” In Identity Papers: Contested Nationhood in Twentieth-Century France. Ed. Stephen Ungar and Tom Conley. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota Press, 1996. 113-135.
Hayden White, "The Value of Narrativity in the Representation of Reality" in The Content of Form: Narrative Discourse and Historical Representation (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins UP, 1987): 1-25.
Roland Barthes (1915-1980). “Le mythe, aujourd’hui.” Mythologies. Paris: Seuil, 1957. 193-247.
Sibeud, Emmanuelle. “’Negrophilia’, ‘Negrology’, or ‘Africanism’? Colonial Ethnography and Racism in France around 1900.” In In Promoting the Colonial Idea: Propaganda and Visions of Empire in France. Ed. Tony Chafer and Amada Sackur. New York: Palgrave, 2002. 156-167.
Slavin, David. “Heart of Darkness, Heart of Light: The Civilizing Mission in L’Atlantide.” In Identity Papers: Contested Nationhood in Twentieth-Century France. Ed. Stephen Ungar and Tom Conley. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota Press, 1996. 113-135.
Benoît de l’Estoile, "Rationalizing Colonial Domination: Anthropology and Native Policy in French-Ruled Africa." In Empires, Nations, and Natives. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 2005. 30-57
Films
available at Clemons reserves
DVD 6068, Lumière films
VHS 3504, Lumière premier programme.
DVD 6071 or 12594, Magic of Meliès
DVD 00064, Landmarks of Early Film
DVD06816, l’Atlantide
DVD 2849 Pépé le Moko
DVD 12114 pt. 2: Au pays des Dogon and Sous les masques noirs, on Jean Rouch disc 2.
DVD 12590, La France est un empire (1939)
VHS 6563, L’homme du Niger (1940)
Brazza ou l’épopée du Congo (1939) (on order)
DVD 2948 pt. 2, Les statues meurent aussi (on Hiroshima mon amour DVD)
VHS 12514, La noire de... (1966)
DVD 7123 pt. 3, Rouch, Petit à Petit (1966)
DVD 3101, Black and white in color (1977)
DVD 4653 or 12597 Rue cases-nègres (Sugar Cane Alley) (1983)
VHS 12511 or 10066, Camp de Thiaroye (1987)
DVD 2564, Chocolat (1988)
VHS 6445, Outremer (1990)
DVD 2766, Indochine (1991)
DVD08223, Afrique, je te plumerai (1993)
VHS 8542, Rouch in Reverse (1995)
VHS 9013, Guimba (1995)
DVD 6914, La vie sur terre (1998)
DVD 10781, Lumumba (2000)
DVD 12355, The Sea Wall (2008)
Rachid Bouchareb, L'ami ya bon (online)
Assignments
· Participation 32%
· Exposés 12%
· Response papers 12%
· Essay 32% (21% first version, 11% second version)
· Final project 12%
[note: I noticed that the category weights announced earlier did not add up to 100%. So, to keep the weighting the same, I added 2 pts to each category. Hence the odd numbers!]
Exposés
Each week, one member of the class will be responsible for presenting and contextualizing the reading/viewing material and leading discussion. The exposés should be approximately 10-15 minutes in length, not including discussion (which may go over time, depending on how it goes). An excellent exposé will present some brief introductory material, engage the other students with questions, and provide a close reading of one sequence (2-3 mn max), using pertinent film vocabulary. Think of this as a chance to work on your pedagogy, with really great students! There is no set format, as long as the various elements are included. Questions might be asked at the beginning, all through the presentation, or at the end, depending on how you want the format to work.
Response papers
Each week you will hand in a 1-2 page written response, in French, to the film or reading assigned for the week. These papers will not receive grades as such, but I will make the following distinctions:
Y indicates that the work is good, solid, thoughtful work, in good French
+ indicates that the work is particularly original or exceptional, in excellent French
- indicates that the work appears hasty, superficial, or otherwise leaves considerable room for improvement, or that the French needs considerable revision to be acceptable
A good response paper is not a summary, but a thoughtful response to the material that makes connections with other readings/films, raises questions, or workshops an idea or argument.
Analytical article
Each student will be required to complete a substantial analytical article, 10-15 pages for FREN 5584, 20-25 pages for FREN 8584, double spaced, 1-inch margins, Times New Roman Font, correct and consistent Chicago or MLA Style citations. Description
Creative final projet
For this project, you may work alone or with someone else. I encourage you to start thinking about it now; it should not take you too long to execute, but I suspect it will take you some time to develop an idea. Description.