Histoire du cinéma: auteurs, genres, courants

Exposure to over 800 slides of film stills allows students to visualize the historical panorama. Each class is followed by the screening of a feature film (or a documentary) regarding the country, the genre, and the period discussed on the same day. A course book filled with key images to be memorized for the exam is published by the University Press.

To introduce the students to the global evolution of the so-called 7th Art by considering some of the major titles, personalities and movements that made film history. (Even years: “From its Origins to WWII” — Odd years: “From WWII to the New Waves.”)

Courses requiring this course

The slide-show which the course relies on for illustration is designed to spark and stimulate the visual memory of the students, and to give them as wide a variety of landmarks as is possible in the course of a quarter. The aim is to develop critical and aesthetic skills that can guide the students as they negotiate their way in a world overwhelmed by cultural consumerism, and to inspire the curiosity in a varied student body (film scholars, journalists, art historians, architects, etc.) in the films of the past.

References, bibliography, and recommended reading

BEYLIE C., "Les Films-clés du cinéma", Compacts Bordas, 1991; reprinted Larousse Poches. BEYLIE C. & PINTURAULT J., "Les Films-phares du cinéma contemporain", Compacts Bordas, 1995; reprinted Larousse Poches. BOUSSINOT R., "Encyclopédie du cinéma", Bordas, updated editions. DELLI COLLI L., "Les Métiers du cinéma", Liana Levi, 1986. PASSEK J.-L., "Dictionnaire du cinéma", Larousse, updated editions. PINEL V., "Le Siècle du Cinéma", Bordas, 1995. RAPP B. & LAMY A., "Dictionnaire des films", Larousse, updated editions. TULARD J., "Dictionnaire du cinéma", Bordas, updated editions. VANOYE F., FREY F. & LETE A., "Le Cinéma, Repères pratiques Nathan, 1998.

Contacts

C/O Secrétariats de la Filière Cinéma (Elicit) et Infocom E-mail : fagerard@ulb.ac.be GSM : 0472/333.505

Method(s) of evaluation

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The students, split into groups of three, must pass a 60-minute oral examination, during which they are asked to identify and comment on half a dozen slides. In preparation for the exam date, the students are asked to prepare a list of 20 films not necessarily mentioned in the course (10 from before 1995, and 10 from after that date), which they feel ready to discuss and analyze critically. The students will also be asked to link their choices to the material discussed during the course.