French Cinema: The Student's Book

French Cinema: A Student's Book is an introduction to French cinema, in English. 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 French version of this text, Apprentissage du cinema francais, is also available, so the same course can be taught to students of French culture as well as students of French language.

Additional Resources: French Cinema companion website.

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Apprentissage du Cinéma français (English Edition)

Alan J. Singerman

2006 - 410 pp. - Imprint: Focus

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French Cinema: A Student's Book is an introduction to French cinema, in English. 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 French version of this text, Apprentissage du cinema francais, 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_e.html

 

 

Reviews:

"To say that Alan Singerman's book fills a void in the market is the understatement of the year; it is the single most valuable contribution to the field in years and is destined to have a profound impact on the way film is taught in the college classroom. . . . Singerman's book is a highly sophisticated educational tool that caters to advanced-level undergraduate and graduate students."
     —Tom Conner, Professor of Modern Foreign Languages, St. Norbert College, in NECTFL Review


About the Authors:

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.