Contemporary French Culture

Code:

LA005

Acronym:

CFCON

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Cultural Studies

Instance: 2023/2024 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Web Page:	https://www.davidpinhobarros.com/Cultura-Francesa-ContemporaneaContemporary-French-Culture
Responsible unit:	Department of Portuguese and Romance Studies
Course/CS Responsible:	Bachelor in Applied Languages

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
LA	53	Study plan	1	-	6	41	162
LLC	11	Study plan	2	-	6	41	162
		Study plan	3	-	6	41	162

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

This course proposes a reading of the first five decades of the History of contemporary France, from the Postwar Period to François Mitterand's presidency, through the analysis of one of its richest and most recognised artistic expressions: cinema. The works in the program will be studied as a reflection of the great socio-cultural, political and economic changes experienced by France between the 1940s and the 1980s, but also as agents of transformation, partially responsible for profound changes in French habits and mentalities throughout these decades.

Learning outcomes and competences

On completion of the course, it is expected that the students have acquired both a diachronic and a synchronic perspective on the cultural history of contemporary France, that they know the problems and challenges facing the country in the studied period and that they are able to relate, in an informed and creative way, artistic production with historical and cultural context.

Working method

Presencial

Program

1. The end of the Second World War
2. New materials, new mythologies
3. Americanisation and transatlantic affections
4. The disintegration of the French Union
5. Times of protest and compromise
6. François Mitterrand
's France

Mandatory literature

Drazin, Charles; French Cinema, Faber & Faber, 2011. ISBN: 978-0571211739
Pereira Marques, Fernando; A Praia Sob a Calçada: Maio de 68 e a «Geração de 60», Âncora Editora, 2005. ISBN: 978-9727801473
Sirinelli, Jean-François; Comprendre le XXe siècle français, Fayard, 2005. ISBN: 978-2213626086
Tinazzi, Giorgio (ed.); Il cinema francese attraverso i film, Carocci, 2011. ISBN: 978-8843060061

Complementary Bibliography

Bancel, Nicolas, Blanchard, Pascal & Lemaire, Sandrine; Décolonisations françaises : La chute d'un empire, Éditions de la Martinière, 2020. ISBN: 978-2732484242
Barthes, Roland; Mythologies, Points, 2014. ISBN: 978-2757841754
Bragaglia, Cristina; Storia del cinema francese, Newton Compton Editori, 1995. ISBN: 978-8879838801
Gaston-Mathe, Catherine; La Société française au miroir de son cinéma, Le Cerf, 2001. ISBN: 978-2204067423
Gumpert, Lynn (ed.); The Art of the Everyday: The Quotidian in Postwar French Culture, NYU Press, 1997. ISBN: 978-0814731086
Judt, Tony; Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945, Penguin Press, 2005. ISBN: 978-1594200656
Langlois, Suzanne; La Résistance dans le cinéma français 1944-1994, L'Harmattan, 2003. ISBN: 978-2747507752
Layerle, Sébastien; Caméras en lutte en mai 68, Nouveau Monde Editions, 2008. ISBN: 978-2847363340
Leteux, Christine; Continental Films: Cinéma français sous contrôle allemand, La Tour Verte, 2017. ISBN: 978-2917819425
Maarek, Philippe J.; De Mai 68 aux films X : Cinéma, politique et société, Dujarric, 1993. ISBN: 978-2859470593
Rémond, René; Notre siècle : 1918-1995, Fayard, 1991. ISBN: 978-2213027166
Ross, Kristin; Fast Cars, Clean Bodies: Decolonization and the Reordering of French Culture, The MIT Press, 1996. ISBN: 978-0262680912
Ross, Kristin; May '68 and its Afterlives, University of Chicago Press, 2008. ISBN: 978-0226728001
Singer, Barnett; The Americanization of France: Searching for Happiness after the Algerian War, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2013. ISBN: 978-1442221659
Venturini, Simone; Il cinema francese negli anni di Vichy, Mimesis, 2018. ISBN: 978-8857543611
Weber, Alain; La Bataille du film 1933-1945 : Le cinéma français entre allégeance et résistance, Ramsay, 2007. ISBN: 978-2841148943

Teaching methods and learning activities

Oral presentation supported by Keynote presentations, collective analysis of texts and images, viewing of film excerpts, debates with students and conference with a guest speaker. The language used in the classes will be Portuguese, but students, if they so choose, will also have the option of submitting their final work in English, French or Italian.

keywords

Humanities > Literature
Humanities > Arts

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Trabalho prático ou de projeto	25,00
Trabalho escrito	25,00
Exame	50,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	70,00
Frequência das aulas	41,00
Trabalho escrito	26,00
Trabalho de investigação	25,00
Total:	162,00

Eligibility for exams

Not applicable.

Calculation formula of final grade

Assessment will be the result of the average between the following components, all of which are mandatory: questions for the guest speaker (25%), essay (25%) and exam (50%). The non-fulfillment, by any student, of one or more of the evaluation components will imply the failure of the curricular unit with the classification "RFC" ("failed due to lack of component"). In addition, any attempt at plagiarism or copying will result in the attribution of the score of 0 to the assessment component in which it is detected, as well as the failure of the curricular unit with the classification "RFR" ("failed for fraud").

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Working students and students with special educational needs are allowed to request, before the first moment of assessment, exemption from the components of the questions for the guest speaker and the essay, and in that case the exam is worth 100% of the grade.

Classification improvement

Only the component of the exam can be resat or improved.