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Vampire as Cultural Critic — CUR4401.01

Instructor: Anne Thompson
Days & Time: MO,TH 10:00am-11:50am
Credits: 4

This seminar explores the cinematic vampire as a symbolic curator, critic, and connoisseur, one who collects, consumes, and reflects cultural concerns. Through films paired with philosophical and critical texts, we examine how vampires serve as mirrors, archivists, aesthetes, and subversive observers and how filmmakers stylistically foreground or reframe aspects of the vampire mythos.

Chocolat — FRE4608.01

Instructor: No毛lle Rouxel-Cubberly
Days & Time: TU,FR 10:30am-12:20pm
Credits: 4

Why is a Mayan food, chocolate, such a high-stake product in French-speaking countries ?

Framed? Literature Heroines on Screen — FRE4809.01

Instructor: No毛lle Rouxel-Cubberly
Days & Time: MO,TH 1:40pm-3:30pm
Credits: 4

French literature and film have always reciprocally inspired one another 鈥 as early as 1897, Lumi猫re represented the main characters of Hugo鈥檚 Les Mis茅rables. This course will offer students the opportunity to analyze literary representations of women and their film adaptations in terms of intermediality and intertextuality. Adaptations will include: La Princesse de Cl猫ves (La Fayette/Sauder), La Religieuse (Diderot/Rivette), La Noire de鈥 (Semb猫ne/Semb猫ne), La Prisonni猫re/La Captive (Proust/Akerman). Students will focus on various adaptation strategies and approaches.