Th, 4:00 PM-6:30 PM, BH 221
Required film screening: W, 7:00 PM-10:30 PM, BH 147
Meets with CULS-C 701
Open to Graduates Only!

Instructor: Joan Hawkins
E-Mail: jchawkin@indiana.edu
Office: Mottier Hall 113
Phone: 855-1548

For American Francophiles, the recent banlieue riots were a painful
reminder that postcolonial violence, racism, and class tensions are
as much flash points in France as they are in the U.S. For this
class, we’ll be looking at some recent films which deal with
colonialism, postcolonialism, race and class, and reading them
against older films (made in the 1950s, 60s and 70s) that treated
the same topics.  Films will include Diva (Jean Jacques Beineix,
1982), Police (Maurice Pialat, 1985), L.627 (Bertrand
Tavernier,1992), Black Girl (1966, Ousmane Sembene, Senegal),
Chocolat (Claire Denis 1988), L’état sauvage (François Girod, 1978),
Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo, Italian/Algerian 1965), Le
Petit Soldat (Godard, 1962),  La Trahison (Phillipe Fauçon  2005),
Nuit noire: 17. Octobre 1961 (Alain Tasma, made for French TV
2005),  Caché  (Michael Haneke, 2005),  Four Hundred Blows (François
Truffaut 1959), Thé au harem d’Archimède (Mehdi Charef, 1985), Two
or Three Things I Know About Her (Jean-Luc Godard, 1966), La Haine
(Matthieu Kassovitz, 1995), Samia (Phillippe Fauçon, 2000),
L’esquive (Abdel Kechiche,  2003), Intimacy (Patrice Chéreau,
written by Hanif Kureishi, England 2001), and The Intruder (Claire
Denis 2004).

Course work to include an oral presentation, 1 short paper, 1
research paper and a take-home final exam.

Readings:
Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks (Grove Press, 1967 orig publ
1952)

Kristin Ross, Fast Cars, Clean Bodies: Decolonization and the
Reordering of French Culture (MIT Press, 1995)

Guy Austin, Contemporary French Cinema (Manchester U Press, 1996)

Carrie Tarr, Reframing Difference: Beur and Banlieue Filmmaking in
France (Manchester U Press 2005  0-7190-6877-0, paper)

Trica Danielle Keaton, Muslim Girls and the Other France (Indiana
University Press,2006)

Colin McCabe Godard: Images, Sounds, Politics (BFI, 1980)

Georgia de Chamberet, ed. Xcités: The Flamingo Book of New French
Writing (Harper Collins/Flamingo: 2000)

Valentina Vitali and Paul Willemen, eds. Theorising National Cinema
(London, British Film Institute: 2006)

selection of essays