Cinema for French Conversation (Fourth Edition)

Cinema for French Conversation, Fourth Edition is an exciting book for incorporating French cinema and culture into a French language course. Each chapter is devoted to a single movie and includes tools for students watching the film, discussing and writing about the film, and understanding the film in a broader cultural context. This best-selling textbook continues to define language learning through film.

Included in each chapter is vocabulary helpful to understanding and discussing the film, structured exercises for understanding the film once it has been viewed—especially for discussion in class—and an accompanying reading for each film designed to provide perspective on the film itself.

New to the fourth edition:

• Four new award-winning films
• Revised selection of readings
• Handy textboxes providing clarifications, examples, and tips on how to avoid common mistakes
• Screen shots of characters in Premiere Approche
• Companion website offering links to film trailers, interviews, and other online resources

Additional Resources:

• Course Instructor Resources: An electronic (PDF only) instructor's manual for Cinema for French Conversation, Fourth Edition is available to qualified course instructors who have adopted the text for their course. To request a copy, click here

• Film information and additional book resources are available for students and instructors on the Cinema for French Conversation title support page.

Films:

Films in bold are new to the 4th Edition. Access to the films is not included with the purchase of the textbook. Information about where to purchase the DVD or digital download of all of the films covered in the textbook is available on the Cinema for French Conversation title support page. DVDs of some of the films, as noted below, are available for sale directly from Hackett Publishing Company.

• Inch' Allah dimanche
• Jean de Florette
• Manon des sources
• Ressources humaines
• Joyeux Noël (DVD availble for sale on the Hackett website)
• Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain
• L'esquive
• Ridicule
• La veuve de Saint-Pierre
• Les femmes du 6e étage (DVD available for sale on the Hackett website)
• Welcome (DVD available for sale on the Hackett website)
• Au revoir les enfants
• 8 femmes
• Cyrano de Bergerac
• Le hussard sur le toit
• Molière (DVD available for sale on the Hackett website)
• Le dernier métro
• Le dîner de cons

About the Author:

Anne-Christine Rice is an instructor in the Department of Romance Languages at Tufts University. She is also the author of La France contemporaine à travers ses films, available from Focus.