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Moving Images: Global narratives in cinema and graphic novels
FRENCH 74

Course Information

Description

We will consider issues related to race, gender, class and ecology as well as aesthetics at the intersection of the written and visual by reading contemporary graphic novels, children’s books and films as both works of art and documentation. This course will include work from and on Senegal, Ivory Coast, Iran, Mauritius, South Korea, Martinique, Guadeloupe, Reunion, France and Quebec. We will consider works by Marguerite Abouet, Shenaz Patel, Kama La Mackerel, Jung, Marjane Satrapi, Jessica Oublié, Thierry Petit Le Brun, Chloé Robichaud and Claire Denis among others.

Course Notes

This course will be conducted in French.

School Faculty of Arts & Sciences
Credits 4
Cross Reg

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Course Component Seminar
Subject French
Grading Basis FAS Letter Graded
General Education N/A
Quantitative Reasoning with Data N/A
Divisional Distribution Arts and Humanities
Course Level Primarily for Undergraduate Students