Apprentissage du cinéma français
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, French Cinema: The Student's Book, is also available, so the same course can be taught to students of French culture as well as students of French language.
Additional Resources: Apprentissage du cinema francais Companion website.
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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, French Cinema: The Student's Book, is also available, so the same course can be taught to students of French culture as well as students of French language.
Links To Additional Resources:
Films: The complete list of 17 films covered in the texbook, with links to purchase the DVDs or digital download of the flims, is available here on the title support page for French Cinema: The Student's Book and Apprentissage du cinema francais.
Companion website: Includes a film terms glossary, bio-filmographies of the filmmakers, and film clip excerpts from the films covered in the textbook. The excerpts are organized by film and the clips themselves are embedded on the site webpages via Vimeo and cannot be shared or downloaded. Read more about the companion website here: http://www.hackettpublishing.com/french_cinema_support/index.html
Reviews:
"Ce texte est remarquable pour plusieurs raisons: l'auteur nous offre toute son expérience dans la critique et l'enseignement du cinéma français; de plus il met à notre disposition une amplitude de références et de citations directes, et enfin il invite l'étudiant/e à devenir à son tour critique et analyste de cette sélection impeccable de films classiques indispensables pour une vraie compréhension de l'histoire du cinéma français."
—Rebecca Pauly, West Chester University (PA)
"Le livre d'Alan Singerman est un outil essentiel à l'enseignement du cinéma français tant par son étude détaillée de films canoniques que par les activités variées qu'il propose. Apprentissage du Cinéma Français offre en sus (et entre autres) lexique, bibliographies et exemples d'analyses de scène, tous extrêmement utiles à l'enseignant comme à l'étudiant."
—Brigitte E. Humbert, Middlebury College
"Apprentissage du cinéma français offers a wonderful selection of classic French films, packed with information on the history, production, technique and reception of each film. The quantity, content and level of readings were just right for my students, who had completed at least six semesters of French. Thank you for writing this much needed book."
—Cheryl Krueger, University of Virginia
About the Author:
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.
