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    Overview

    An advanced exploration of the contemporary French cultural landscape through a variety of genres, such as literature, drama and film.

    You are invited to a rich voyage through diverse contemporary cultural landscapes in French and Francophone worlds! Come and explore a variety of modern, postmodern and contemporary sources - such as short literary texts, drama and film - in a global contemporary perspective!

    About this paper

    Paper title Crossroads in French Cultural Space (Advanced)
    Subject French
    EFTS 0.15
    Points 18 points
    Teaching period Not offered in 2024 (On campus)
    Domestic Tuition Fees ( NZD ) $981.75
    International Tuition Fees Tuition Fees for international students are elsewhere on this website.
    Prerequisite
    36 200-level points
    Restriction
    FREN 250
    Schedule C
    Arts and Music
    Contact
    languages@otago.ac.nz
    constantin.grigorut@otago.ac.nz
    Teaching staff

    Dr Constantin Grigorut, Senior Lecturer, Languages and Cultures programme, University of Otago

    Paper Structure

    While the students will read and watch, discover and analyse hidden cultural allusions inside these wonderful and touching stories, together, we will discuss particular links to guilt and solitude, suffering and healing, angels and demons generated by hope and despair in our contemporary world, looking at cultural bridges, from Greek mythology and oriental religion to postmodern landscape of the Western world as expression of natural connections between individual/collective trauma, myth and modern/postmodern being.

    Teaching Arrangements
    There are two lectures a week and one tutorial.
    Textbooks
    1. Annie Mignard: "7 histoires d'amour"
    2. Yasmina Reza: "L'Homme du hasard"
    3. E-E Schmitt: Monsieur Ibrahim et les fleurs du Coran"
    Graduate Attributes Emphasised
    Global perspective, Scholarship, Communication, Critical thinking, Cultural understanding.
    View more information about Otago's graduate attributes.
    Learning Outcomes

    Students who successfully complete this paper will

    • Express an understanding of the relevance of the critical Humanities in approaching the modern/contemporary French/Francophone cultural space
    • Understand and engage with intertextual theory
    • Understand culturally and historically diverse approaches within contemporary film
    • Recognise and discuss critically the cultural assumptions about "otherness" in contemporary French/francophone film
    • Engage in critical debates on myth as cultural connector in film
    • Critically engage with both theory and method in the development of an advanced reflective essay

    Timetable

    Not offered in 2024

    Location
    Dunedin
    Teaching method
    This paper is taught On Campus
    Learning management system
    Blackboard
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